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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26. 1997V gflARvifi 17, 5757 . 18 THU AL-QADAH 1417

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By JON HBIANUEL

FatabplWsa series of marches
and “powerful" demonstrations on
Sunday’s Land Day, which has
been designated as "Palestine
Day? in die .West Bank and Cm™
ThisViS to protest against Israeli
government settlement and land
expropriation policies. Fatah bead
MarwanJ&rghouti said yesterday.

Land Day, observed since 1976
when six Israeli Arab villagers
were shot by border policemen
putting down a protest over expro-
priated land, has been a less
important symbol to West Bank
Palestinians, Protests this year
may be synchronized, however,
under die heading: “Settlements
, are. terror”

JVestei?}ay,Fatah and officials of
tbe L . Palestinian . Legislative ■
Council political committee met 1
to coordinate protest plans. They
included Bazghotui, Hassan
ASfpur (an Oslo negotiator),
Ahmed Deik (son-in-law of Abu
. Jihad), and Nabil Amr, editor of
Hayat al-Jadida, die newspaper
.closest to the Palestinian
Authority.

Today, . the Palestinian
Legislative Council is to meet in
Ramallah, but as of last night, the
IDF refused to allow Gaza mem-
bers to enter Israel to attend.
“There is a closure, so no one
leaves Gaza," the IDF Spokesman
said.

Barghcmti said that at a meeting
of 500 Fatab activists in Beit
Sahur three days ago, “We called
on the Palestinian Authority to
stop coordination on security mat-
ters with Israel until it agrees to
change its policies.”

The-PA, however, is continuing
security coordination, although
both PA 4nd IDF officials have
said that for the past three weeks
or more it has been on a lower
level of cooperation than before.

At dre Beit Sabur meeting of
Fatah area committees and the
Higher Fatah Council, “about 30
percent^ of the participants called
.for renewing die intifada and “a
few voices^ • called for armed
attacks in- the West Bank, but the
great majority opted for peaceful
demonstrations, ; according to
Nafez Rifat a Bethlehem delegate
to the Higher Fatah CounciL
The more militant delegates
came from among the local
activists who led the intifada,
while die more moderate elements
were from the organized officials
of Fatah, including those who
t^ pyi from Tunis and are more
closely associated with the PA-
The Higher Council of 41 dele-
gates made one concession to
those calling for intifada by
including in its final statement a
call for a boycott of Israeli goods
which- could be replaced by local

^The definition of peaceful
demonstrations apparently

includes throwing stones and fire-
bombs into the no-man's land
between IDF and Palestinian
Police forces in Bethlehem and
Hebron. Palestinian policemen
have restrained and pushed, back
stonethrowers who got close
enough to IDF troops to hit them.

“I don’t think that stones are vio-
lence,” Baighouti was quoted as
telling the Independent Media.
Review and Analysis, in m inter-

Gonfjnijed on Rage 2

Deputy Minister Peled charges:

Arafat knew of
World Trade
Center plot

A.Pakstinian rioter holding a slingshot leaps over a pile of burning tires In Bethlehem yesterday.
Story, Page 2. (Bryan McBurney)

By STEVE ROD AM

Israeli intelligence has evidence
that Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat had prior
knowledge of the successful 1993
plot to bomb New York City’s
World Trade Center, whicb killed
six people, Deputy Education
Minister Mosbe Peled said last
nigbL

“More than that, he was part of
the discussions on the operation,”
Peled said. “I call on the prime
minister to give the information to'
the Americans, so tbey’if know
who they’re dealing with."

Peled confirmed information
relayed by intelligence sources
that, several days before the
February 26, 1993 bombing,
Arafat met with Sudanese and
Islamic terrorist leaders who dis-
cussed' the plot.

The sources said Arafat was
privy to the conspiracy, because of

his close personal ties to Sudanese
leader Hassan Turabi, head of the
National Islamic Front. According
to a US Stare Department report
on terrorism, Turabi is a leading
advocate of closer ties between
terrorist groups and their govern-
ment sponsors. He was also a
leading figure in the Fatah-Hamas
dialogue in 1995.

Two Sudanese diplomats were
arrested and later deported in July
of 1993, after US authorities
directly linked them to the explo-
sion at the World Trade Center and
a plot to bomb the United Nations.

Israeli government spokesmen
refused to comment on the intelli-
gence reports or on Peled’s call for
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu to release them to the
US. “1 don't know anything about
it," said David Bar-IU an, director
of communications and policy
planning in the Prime Munster’s
Office.

A Defense Ministry spokesman
also refused to comment.

But US and Israeli intelligence
sources agree that Arafat contin-
ues to maintain a large number of
Fatah guerrillas in bases in Sudan,
1,200 of whom arrived from that
country in 1994 and now serve in
the Palestinian security forces.
One Israeli source said the number
of Fatah guerrillas in Sudan is
close to 3,000.

“Arafat continues to main tain a
training base in Sudan and the
Fatah people there and work
closely with the regime and with
Iran,” said Yonah Alexander, a
Pentagon consultant and director
of the terrorism studies program at
George Washington University.
“If there hadn’t been an agreement
with Israel, then Fatah would def-
initely have been on the US list of
terror organizations."

Continued on Page 2

Nature lovers
ignore Green Line

By PAVP BUDGE

Despite recent tensions between
Israel and the Palestinian
Authority, a joint Israeli-
PaJestin/an group aimed at pre-
serving nature on both sides of the
Green Line has recently been
established under the mono
“People to people - nature knows
no boundaries."

The group, known as the Israeli-
Palestinian Environment and
Nature Protection Secretariat, is
the brainchild of Yossi Leshem,
former executive director of the
Society for the Protection of
Nature in Israel (SPNI).

Leshem said the project, whicb
the Dutch government is helping

to finance, is aimed at bringing
people together and creating a bet-
ter understanding through love of
nature.

“The idea was bom after I
learned that Dr. Yair Hirscbfeid,
one of the architects of the Oslo
Accords, was establishing an
Israeli-Palestinian Economic
Cooperation Foundation,” said
Leshem, who now lectures at Tel
Aviv University while continuing
to play an active role in SPNL

“I suggested that the environ-
ment is also an economic issue .
and that we could organize outings '
for Palestinian and Israeli kids,
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suspension
of aid to PA

By HILLEi- KUTTLER

WASHINGTON - Senator Alien
Specter is calling for US aid to the
Palestinians to be suspended until
the administration determines
whether the Palestinian Authority is
complying with its commimwit to
fight terrorism.

Under US law and an amendment
Specter authored in 1 995, the admin-
istration's S500 million, five-year
pledge for assistance is conditioned
on its certifying that the PA is com-
plying with its commitments under
the Oslo accord.

In a letter to Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright. Specter said
that in light of Prime Minister
Binyamin" Netanyahu's charge
that Arafat gave a “green light"
to terrorist attacks, “it is very
important" for the US to deter-
mine whether that is true.

Specter requested a prompt
rcsponx so that it could be consid-
ered when the foreign aid bill is
taken up by the appropriations sub-
committee on which he sits. “My
own view is his [Arafat's] perfor-
mance is borderline and we've given
him the benefit of the doubt because
we don't want to rock the boat."
Specter said.

Dagan: Terrorists

may strike soon

Clashes continue
in territories

By UAT COLLINS
and STEVE BODAN

Terrorists might strike again
soon, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Meir
Dagan, the prime minister 's
adviser on counterterrorism,
warned at a briefing yesterday.
He called for increased public
alert against attempts to plant
bombs or stage other attacks.

Dagan said the Palestinian
Authority and its Islamic opposi-
tion plan to escalate the violence
to coincide with next week's
Land Day, the anniversary of
1976 clashes between Israeli
Arabs and police in which six
people were killed.

But Dagan stressed that he does
not have concrete information of
a terrorist plot to attack Israel. “If
there was such concrete informa-
tion, I wouldn't be here," he said.
“We would be working on this.”

Meanwhile. Chief of General
Staff Ll.-Gen. Amnon Lipkin-
Shahak told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee
yesterday that the “ground is
more- fertile for attacks," but
security forces are prepared.

Asked about the possibility a

Djerejian: Arafat must
stop terror in word, deed

By STEVE BODAN

Palestinian Authority chief
Yasser Arafat cannot continue
peace negotiations while refusing
to fight Palestinian terrorists intent
on attacking Israel, a former
senior US official said last night

Edward Djerejian. US assistant
secretary of state in the Bush
administration. told The
Jerusalem Post that Arafat must
“assume all the responsibility on
his part both in word and deed in
preventing terrorism on the
ground and make the 100 percent
effort dial the US is talking
about"

“Certainly, the Palestinian lead-
ership can’t have it both ways,"
Djerejian. who now directs the
James Baker Institute of Public
Policy at Rice University, said-
“It cannot not live up to its oblig-.
ations to prevent terrorism and
stilf at the same time pursue the
peace process. There has to be a
total living up to that commit-
ment."

Djerejian, who is in Israel to
attend conferences at Tel Aviv
University and at the International

Policy Institute for Counter-
Terrorism, called on Prime
Minister Binyarnin Netanyahu to
refrain from changing the current
situation in the territories and
Jerusalem, particularly the con-
struction of Har Homa. and begin
negotiations on final status issues
with the Palestinians. He warned
that without progress in talks with
die Palestinians “there will be a
sharp deterioration in the situa-
tion."

He said that Arafat and
Netanyahu have to decide whether.
the recently-signed Hebron accord
is the end of die peace process,
followed by violence, or a gate-
way to final status issues such as
borders, Jerusalem, settlements
and Palestinian refugees. "This is
a truly, very fragile crossroads in
. the Palestinian jiegO nations,” he
said.

The former assistant secretary of
state said despite the current ten-
sion. Arafat remains bound to the
peace process. “I don't think that
Arafat thinks or feels that he has
any option but to pursue the peace
process," he said. “He has much to
gain and everything to lose."

Sharon hears Hebron
settlers’ complaints

By MARGOT DUDKEVTTCH

National Infrastructure Minister
Ariel Sharon paid a surprise visit
to Hebron and Kiryat Arba yester-
day afternoon. At Tel Rumeida.
Sharon listened to Hebron Jewish
community leaders, who informed
him of the flagrant violations of
the Hebron agreement by the
Palestinians.

According to Hebron community
spokesman Noam Amon, the issues
raised included the building freeze.
“We cannot build one home or even
a room,” said Amon. In addition, the
setdere spoke about die Palestinian
Police and rioters who entered deep
into the H2 areas.

Amon said the number of
Palestinian policemen was also in
violation of the agreement, stating
that “instead of 400 there are at
least 1.500."

They also raised the fact that
they are prevented from guarding
the ancient Jewish cemetery.

where gravestones were recently
desecrated.

Sharon said he believes Arabs
and Jews can live together in
Hebron, but the Arabs must recog-
nize that there will always be a
Jewish presence there and honor
the agreement, according to his
spokesman Ranan Gissin.

Sharon, who wrote down the
objections after listening to die
settlers, promised to inform the
government.

Also in Hebron yesterday was
Prime Minister Binyarnin
Netanyahu’s policy planning aide
David Bar- Ulan.

Meanwhile, before attending the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee session. Chief
of General Staff Lt-Gen. Amnon
Lipltin-Shahak, accompanied by
OC Central Command Maj.-Gen.
Uzi Dayan and OC Judea and
Samaria Maj.-Gen. Gabi Ofir, vis-
ited the H2 area in Hebron and
spoke with troops stationed there.

FATAH

Continued from Page 1

iew. “It is peaceful to throw
tones.”

However, no one at the Beit
ahur conference supported
Hacks inside Israel. “We are
bsolutely against the attacks,"
aid Barghouti.

Rifai, who is on a daily vigil
ear Har Homa, said, “I condemn
/hat happened in Tel Aviv. I think
tiis is the hardest of all bulldoz-
rs. But mad decisions by
Jetanyahu make Palestinians
rostrated.”

Nevertheless, there is growing
oordination and cooperation
rith Hamas, and Fatah called for
no re coordination with opposi-
ion groups. The idea is to get
lamas to work within a Fatah
ramework of protests. “For
xample. we participate with
lamas in marches,” Baighouti ,

NATURE

&xttinued from Page 1

field, and the idea took root.”

He said the idea is to establish a
joint center, probably based in
Jerusalem, with a Palestinian
chairman and an Israeli director-
general, create cooperative pro-
jects and establish SPNI-style
field schools in the West Bank
and Gaza.

One project has already gotten
under way, with the aid of Imad
A trash of Beit Sahur.

“We intend to hold a summer
ramp for Israeli and Palestinian
kids on the subject of nature con-
servation and dealing with the
environment,” said Leshem.

The joint project is scheduled to
be discussed at tomorrow’s annu--
al outing of over 10.000 Israeli
Arab schoolchildren on Mt.
Carmel, under the auspices of
SPNI and the Education Ministry.

new intifada now that the
Palestinians are armed, he told
reporters: “Armed Palestinians is
not intifada. It’s war. Intifada is
something else."

Most of the meeting revolved
around the question of whether or
not Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat had given
terror groups a green light for vio-
lence. Labor Party leader Shimon
Peres was particularly persistent in
raising the issue.

According to an official brief-
ing, Brig.-Gen. Amos Gilad,
head of Military Intelligence’s
Research Division, told the
committee that Israel has “no
clear-cut evidence or informa-
tion that Arafat had given the
green light for terror, but his
style, words, and body language
were understood by terror
groups to have given them the
go-ahead."

Peres said it is important to
know whether the green light was
given, because the basic principle
behind die Oslo Accords is that
differences of opinion would be
solved without violence.

Gilad said Jibril Rajoub, head
of Palestinian Preventive

Security, had sent out a message
that Fatah must carry out violent
activities to protest Har Homa.
“There is no doubt he gave the
green light to violence and made
sure activities would take place in
Hebron ”

Gilad said no group had
claimed responsibility for the Tel
Aviv attack because it could com-
plicate matters with and for
Arafat

(It was reported in the local
media, including The- Jerusalem
Post, that Hamas claimed respon-
sibility for the bombing in a
phone call to Channel 1 .)

Gilad said extremist feelings
are running very high among the
Fatah leadership on the ground.

Shahak told the committee said
there are no concrete warnings of
future attack, but they are likely.
He said the situation could be
changed “by dialogue at a high
leveL"

He also said that during the
Hebron rioting over the weekend
die Palestinians were quick to get
the youths out on the street to
protest Har Homa but also quick
to calm them down before it got
out of hand.

By MARGOT DUDKEVTTCH
and HERB KEINON

Fierce clashes between
Palestinians and IDF troops broke
out in Bethlehem, Hebron, and
other areas in the West Bank yester-
day for tile sixth straight day.

One border policeman and an
IDF soldier were lightly wounded
in yesterday's clashes, die IDF
Spokesman said last night The
Border Police officer was hit by
stones in Hebron and the IDF sol-
dier was stoned in Bethlehem.

Shortly after declaring Rachel's
Tomb open to worshipers at noon,
the IDF was forced to evacuate
them, after Palestinian youths,
mainly from Bethlehem University,
started throwing stones and bottles
at troops posted nearby.

Soldiers fired rubber bullets and
tear gas to disperse die rioters, the
IDF Spokesman said, adding there
were no injuries to the troops.
Palestinians claimed that 27 were
injured in the rioting, some from
foe rubber bullets.

Classes at Bethlehem University
■ ended at noon with a caD by the stu-
dent council for all students to join
a rally and march to Rachel's
Tomb, which had just been

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area. The dashes continued for sev

etal hours. . . ^

CoL Eliezer, commander of dre
Bethlehem area, wamed yesterMy
the IDF would deal with vole™
protests more forcefully
Speaking to reporters while
Palestinians were throwing dozens
of rocks at the soldiers gw^hng
Rachel's Tomb. Eliezer sud the
Palestinian forces were not dome all
they could to stop the rioters. He rai
some 400 students were involved m
yesterday’s confrontation. _ .

His demands to the Palestinian
Authority to take a more forceful
hand in putting down the protests
have had to go through the DCU
office, he said, since he has been
unable to set up a meeting with ms
Palestinian counterpart.

ft Hebron.

Palestinians also P^ted IDF
Crocks and soldiers re^co^by^i
firing rubber bullets

community'

Amon did not take place ,

firth section. -It appeal^

Palestinian Police is
something," he said.

Yestert&y afternoon an,
driver was KghUv .njured «

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car was stoned, the IDF ^

announced. He was treated

medics at the scene. ’ '^3 ?.-i

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troops and Palestinian pohoetiaen^v
dispersed a group of
vehicles on the road to
Later in the afternoon, a
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refusing to spell out what weaponry
tbe IDF has brought to the scene. He
said that so far the IDF has reacted

with a great deal of restraint.

The IDF Spokesman said calm
was restored to the area around
Rachel’s Tomb by evening.

age were reported, stwroy
ward city police arrested thre cottef ;:;:
Palestinian youths who were forq^f- v *
ing stones near the Western Wal ^y? ; .

A firebomb was hurled at HSgr---
ooops on the Halhoul bypass

last night the IDF Spokesman

There were no injuries or d airatgp . > ^ -

PA blocks
students
from going to
Joseph’s Tomb

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By MARGOT DUDKEV1TCH

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Arafat visits Bangladesh

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat (center) is flanked by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (right) and
President Shahabuddin Ahmed (left) upon his arrival in Dhaka from Sri Lanka yesterday. He will attend today’s celebrations
marking the 26th anniversary of tbe country’s independence. (Reiner)

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

On the streets of Bethlehem

By HERB KEINON

A Palestinian named Yasser was
painstakingly placing white
Jerusalem stone on the facade of a
new wall protecting Rachel’s
Tomb yesterday, even as his com-
patriots were throwing bottles and
rocks at IDF troops guarding the
site.

“What can I do, I have to eat."
Yasser said, not fazed in tbe least
by the odd spectacle - his budding
a wall to protect the tomb while
Palestinian rioters were throwing
rocks in its direction, seemingly
determined to damage it

Yasser wasn’t interested in talk-
ing much, nor in giving his full
name. He lives in Bethlehem, and
fortifying the tomb can't at this
time be one of the city's favored
ways of making a living.

The foreman of the Palestinian
work crew building the wall was
more expansive. “I have 10 chil-
dren," he said. “I have to feed
them. That is the main thing."
The foreman pointed at the scene
unfolding down the street - rioters
running into tbe street, throwing
rocks, and darting to tbe other side
for safety; tear gas falling from tbe
sky like smoky white snakes. “I
have my profession," he said,
“they [the rioters] have theirs.”
Some profession.

The image of Palestinians

throwing rocks and bottles in the
direction of Rachel's tomb
brought to mind Jewish cemetery
desecrations in places like Poland.
Obviously there are major differ-
ences, but there are also similari-
ties; namely, where there arc no
Jews, attack the Jewish tombs.

Pundits have been trying for
days to define what is happening
in Hebron and Bethlehem. Is it the
beginning of what will rum into an
armed revolt? Is it just the venting
of steam? Is it the intifada? One
thing for sure, the intifada — at
least an intifada along the lines of
the late 1980s - is not what has
emerged in the last few days. And
not only because at tbe end of tbe
day it has been red-bereted
Palestinian security forces who
have broken up the rioting, both in
Bethlehem and in Hebron. It isn't
the intifada because there are no
IDF troops patrolling the city to
hurl rocks and concrete blocks on,
no civilian cars to stone on their
way to nearby settlements.

For an intifada, you need Jews.
Without Jews patrolling or driving
through Palestinian areas, to
attack them one has to go to their
cities - blow up buses and cafes,
kill women and injure babies. But
then it becomes terror - pure and
simple; something much more dif-
ficult to clothe in a romantic man-
tle and call intifada.

The rioting in Bethlehem yester-
day lasted for some five hours,
from the time Bethlehem
University let its students out at
12L30 pm, to the time when the
Palestinian security forces decided
to seriously stop the action at
about five.

For those five hours the scene
was hard to place - like stumbling
onto a movie set. There were
angry shoots, the blast from tear-
gas launchers, the ping of rocks
hitting lamp posts, the pop of rub-
ber bullets being fired, and the
wail of sirens - but not sirens one
hears on Israeli streets, sirens that
sound foreign, from Albania,
maybe Bosnia. The movie-set
quality of die whole scene was due
to its proximity to Jerusalem, just
five minutes from Gilo. Scenes
like this are not supposed to be so
close - unless they are staged to
film movies.

The IDF has for the last few
days intermittently declared
Rachel’s Tomb a closed military
zone, but yesterday morning - for
a few hours - allowed people to
come to pray. When in the after-
noon the IDF Spokesman said that
the site was again closed, and die
worshippers were removed, be
was talking about two people,
Haim Vaknin who is the custodian
of die site, and one other man .

Vaknin, who has been in charge

of the site for the last 17 years,
said hardly anyone came to
Rachel's tomb in the morning —
neither tourists nor hare dim, the
site’s usual clientele. There were
Jewish groups who would have
liked to come to the tomb to prove
a point, but Vaknin asked them not
to. “This isn’t the right time," he
said.

Palestinian Police last night pre^
vented a group of yeshiva students
returning to Joseph's Tomb from
entering Nablus. * L

According to Yehuda Ltebrnan,
who heads a Jewish group caHed
•'The Nablus Command,” foe IDF.
had said it would allow a smaB
group of students to return to
Joseph's Tomb yesterday afternoon.

Liebman said, however, that
when the bus transporting some
students, accompanied by IDF?
jeeps, reached the entrance to
Nablus, the Palestinians refused lb
let it through. The bus was forced
to turn back, but left a small group
of yeshiva students in a van, sMS-V
rounded by IDF troops, at the
entrance to the city. ' •- .

At this point OC Judea and-
Samaria Maj.-Gen. Gabi Opfafri
was asked to intervene, he sai<L-, ’
Ten days ago. fearing an erup-
tion of violence as bulldozers
started work on Har Homa, foe
IDF ordered the closure of
Joseph's Tomb, demanding that
yeshiva students from tire Od,
Yosef Hai yeshiva and all wor-
shipers and visitors leave the area.

Liebman said that after a meet-
ing with OC Central Command !
Maj.-Gen. Uzi Dayan last night/
Opbir ordered all Israelis -ancT
yeshiva students to leave foe .
entrance to Nablus, declaring it i
closed military zone.

Late last night, the IDF.
Spokesman confirmed that
l^festiman Police prevented a bos
fown entering Joseph's Tomb, stat*
mg that their reason for doing so was ~
tension in the area and their belief
that lives would be endangered. \r

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But a US counterterrorism offi-
cial disputed the claim and said
Israeli officials might be confus-
ing Fatah with Abu NidaJ’s Fatah
Revolutionary Council, which
trains in Sudan.

“There’s no doubt there are ter-
rorist groups training in Sudan,
but [Fatah] isn't one of them," he
said.

US counterterrorism officials
have “never heard any report of
Fatah" training there, he said. He
also stated that “there’s been no
indication of that kind of Sudan
connection” to foe World Trade
Center bombing.

At one of the Sudanese camps,
Kadru north of Khartoum, Iranian

experts trained terrorists, includ-
ing Fatah forces headed by Jaber
Amer, as commanders, intelli-
gence operatives, and bomb mak-
ers, according to foe sources.

A US congressional investigator
with close ties to Israeli officials
said Hamas and Fatah have train-
ing camps in Sudan. “They work
together,” he said. “Arafat has
strategic ties with Tbrabi and he
has exploited them in order to
forge cooperation with Hamas."
But the investigator said although
he has heard of reports that Arafat
knew of the World Trade Center
bombing plot, and was said to
have even praised the idea, he is
skeptical of the veracity of the
information. “I have yet to be
convinced,” he said.

US State Department officials
said the PLO has not authorized
any terrorist attacks since Arafat

signed the Declaration of
Principles with Israel in
September 1993. One official
who works on the State
Department’s report on global ter-
rorism said he does not know of
any Fatah bases in Sudan.

In another development, Israeli
officials said the Clinton adminis-
tration has quietly dropped its dis-
pute of Israel’s assertion that
Arafat has allowed tbe Islamic
opposition groups to resume ter-
rorist attacks on Israel.

Hillel Kuttler contributed to this
report.

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Categorical denials dial the establishment
of a national unity government is imminent -
and that die poxtfoKos have already been
allocated were issued -yesterday from both
the offices’: of. Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu and Labor leader Shimon Peres.

The political ruirior mill begun furiously
regriiufing die national unity story yester-
day in the wake of a front-page report in
Yediot Aharon at which claimed that
Netanyahu had already agreed to set up a
unity coalition and that he and Peres had.
reached an -accord whereby each of the large
parties would get six. portfolios in the new
government; with the remaining six portfo-
lios to stay m the hands of the present gov-
ernment's smaller coalition partners.

The report also claimed that Peres would
be awarded die. finance portfolio from Dan
Meridor while Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai would lose his portfolio to
Labor's 1 Etiud Barak. Four other Likud min-
isters would also have to relinquish their
seats around the Cabinet table but Foreign

ANALYSIS

Minister David Levy would be immune
from any reshuffle. Yisrael Ba'aiiya would
lose one of its portfolios, the Third Way
would retain a cabinet portfolio and United
Torah Judaism would not retain exclusive
control of the Housing Ministry either,
according to this scenario.

Netanyahu’s spokesman Shai Bazak was
quick to issue a denial saying that "the
'prime minister had not decided to set up a
national unity government and hence all the
talk about portfolio allocation is nothing
more than journalistic speculation.” A
denial in a similar vein later followed from
Peres, who said that the latest reports "are
thoroughly untrue and without any founda-
tion whatsoever. These aren't serious
reports but ludicrous fabrications."

Netanyahu also called Mordechai last
night to deny the report that he would lose
the Defense Ministry portfolio.

Peres left last night for Thailand, and the
view in Labor is that his absence is likely to
put a temporary halt to the national unity
speculation.

Agriculture Minister Rafael Eilan,

Tourism Minister Moshe Katsav and
Health Minister Ychoshua Matza all came
out yesterday in favor of a national unity
government under certain conditions.
Eilan argued that "it's good for the country
to have as broad a coalition as possible, but
not if it becomes a platform for internal
squabbles and national paralysis."

Katsav said he would support national
unity "on condition that common ground
can be found on such questions as the goals
for the final status talks. Jerusalem, and the
Golan. If a broad coalition can function har-
moniously with broad consensus, then it
might be something we should give serious
consideration to."

Matza, slated to be one of those who may
be ejected from a broad coalition, said:
"Perhaps a unity government is possible if
Oslo's architects agree that we cannot do
business with the two- faced Arafat."

However, the NRP came out against any
talk of national unity yesterday. NRP secre-
tary-general Zevulun Orlev issued an offi-
cial statement asserting that “the results of
the last elections clearly indicate that the

nation does not wont Labor in power this
term. The results mandated a homogenous
right of center coalition. ..The prime minis-
ter mustn’t forget who brought him to
power. The NRP will consider a deal with
Labor behind its back a betrayal."

Interior Minister Eli Suissa of Shas
declared: ‘I am not bothered by this whole
question of national unity because I am not
threatened myself and no one will take any
portfolios from Shas."

Support for national unity came from one
unlikely source yesterday. Meretz MK
Avraham Potaz, unlike his fellow faction
members, welcomed the notion of "rescuing
Netanyahu from the grip of the extreme '
Right and the religious elements, to which
Netanyahu keeps capitulating... Otherwise
he would have never sanctioned the Har
Homa construction."

At its weekly meeting yesterday, howev-
er. the Meretz faction expressed its strong
opposition to a unity government. Meretz
called on Labor to stand together as a
clear, outside alternative to "this scary
government.”

in brief

Terrorist sentenced to another 18 years

Sa’id Badama, serving life plus IS years for a terror attack at
the Hadera bus station two years ago, was sentenced by the Tfel
Aviv District Court yesterday to 18 years in prison for killing
his cellmate. Badama, 27, had been incarcerated with Naza
Abu Zina, who he suspected of collaborating with authorities.

In August, Badama beat Abu Zina until he confessed. A day
later the prisoner died. Badama was charged with murder, but
since he is already serving a maximum sentence, the charge
was reduced to manslaughter. Raine Marcus

Anti-Masada decisions praised

The Meretz Party yesterday issued a statement praising the
administrators of Jerusalem’s Denmark and Labor Values high
schools for their decision to stop sending school trips to
Masada. Meretz MK Dedi Zucker suggested observances of Lag
Ba’otner should be reexamined for the same reason.

Jerusalem Post Staff

Pupils return from Malaysia

A group of Israeli llth-graders returned from a 13-day visit to
Malaysia, and the lessons learned from their trip to the Moslem
country are to be studied in schools across the country. The
pupils came from schools in Haifa, the Tiberias area, Hadera,
Givatayim, and Bat Yam. A reciprocal visit by Malaysian educa-
tors is expected by the end of the year. Jerusalem Post Staff

Unity government
riot around the comer

HOWG

It is axiomatic in the political
arena that a national unity coalition
could- be personally advantageous
to Labor Party leader Shimon Peres
and in some’ ways help Prime
MimsterBinyamin Netanyahu.

Pfeies wotfld be able to enter the
government as Labor’s senior minis-
rerand remain so until the year 2 000,
no matter who is elected Labor
chahinan in his stead on June 3.
Netanyahu would have a freer hand
in charting Israel’s foreign and
defease policy if he did not have a
hostile opposition snapping at his
heels and tfhe couJd be assured of a
jaear-pMiooal coqseosus, =. ■ ■ ■

—Bat does- tftismake. it inevitable
that the formation of abroad coali-
tion is around the comer or even
feasible? Not necessarily. The big
question is whether Netanyahu and
Petes can translate interests into
action. Right now this is more dif-
ficult than in. any national unity
precedent:. . .

: With one exception, all the rest
were formed at the beginning of tire
government’s' term of office, soon
after elections and not after the
portfolios bad already been allocat-
ed To do so in mid-term would
make it necessary for Netanyahu to
sack some of his ministers. He may
thus get rid of foes and competitors
like Finance Minister Dan Meridor
and Defense Minister Yitzhak

Mordechai. but he would also have
to ditch some of his most loyal sup-
porters.

The outcry would shake the
Likud to its veiy foundations and
could be politically suicidal even
for a directly elected premier. It
would be equally wrenching to ask
other coalition parties to yield port-
folios and clout - even if they now
claim to support national unity.
Such unity may be a popular cause,
but many of its boosters expect it
not to happen or to happen at some-
one else’s expense. .

The 1967 example in which
Menachem Begin entered the Levi
Eshkol government without
demanding portfolios is .very
-unlikely to be repeated Labor will
exact a heavy price in ministerial
appointments if Peres is to ever
convince fellow Laban tes to fol-
low him into the coalition.

At tills point it is highly doubtful
whether, he can pull this off despite
the urgency inherent in the fact that
June 3 is less than three months
away. Labor cynics, however, say
that if the spoils are lucrative
enough, Peres could sway even his
most ardent opponent, would-be
Labor leader Ehud Barak. If the
defense portfolio were offered him.
Barak would find the justification
to serve under Netanyahu, they say.

Likud cynics counter with the
question of whether it would suit
Netanyahu to build up his rival in

the next elections by placing him in
a prestigious cabinet seat and
allowing him to claim that
Netanyahu could not hack it alone.
Moreover, Netanyahu would be
jeopardizing his support in the reli-
gious and right-wing parties if he is
seen by them as betraying the
cause. This would be tantamount to
handing Barak the premiership
next time around those close to
Netanyahu say.

The idea of each large party com-
ing away with six portfolios and six
being left in the hands of present
coalition partners is sure to result in
an unwieldy and unstable govern-
ment The small parties would be
even more powerful .than .now,
because they would -become the
prvdfed balance injury cabinet vote.
'THe'pnrhe minister' would be - left in
an untenable situation hi which he
could not count on a cabinet major-
ity for any move and Peres would
be accused of moving into a gov-
ernment in which theoretically the
Right has a majority.

And all (his can happen only after
tiie Bar-On Affair is over. No one
knows when that will be and
whether the government will
emerge untarnished The present
phase may be followed by numer-
ous petitions to the High Court
which could make it all the more
difficult for Peres to talk friends
and foes alike into helping him beat
the June deadline.

Most courteous MK

MK Ori Orr (Labor) is presented the Jerusalem Journalists Association’s Itamar Ben-Avi Award by Ben-Avi’s daughter, Rina
Raz, in a ceremony at the Knesset yesterday. Orr was voted by parliamentary reporters ‘the most courteous MK.’ He said he
hopes to persuade others both' in and outside die House to follow his example and act with patience and tolerance.

(Ttext Liar Collins; Pfaoux Isaac Harari)

Kahalani:
A-G okays
Palestinian
office closures

PM willing to meet Arafat

THE JEK

A% K

By batsheva tsuh

Internal Security Minister
Avigdor Kahalaoi said yesterday
Attorney -General Elyakim

Rubinstein had determined that an
unspecified number of Palestinian
institutions operating in Jerusalem
could be closed because political
activities on behalf of the
Palestinian Authority were bemg
conducted at them. .

But, Kahalani added,- the attor-
ney-general had given a legal
opinion and it was up to him, as
minister, to make a political dech
sion on the issue. "1 am still con-
sidering it,” Kahalani told mem-
bers of the Knesset Law
Committee yesterday.

-There are many considerations
other than the ' legal ones,”
Kahalani said. ■ j -_ J= ~

The- minister came under fire
from his coalition .partners.
“Nothing is worse than, a d£«io|e
message,” said -Ruby
(Likud). Ze’ev Begin (Likud)
added: “If you try to close four
institutions and then end up maybe
closing two, you are indkanng to
..the. o*ers that their activities are

kosher.” • - .

Asked whether the prime minis-
ter was party to. the decision,
Kahalani repliedf /Tt is up to the
minister in charge.” As far me
affidavits presented by diePA stat-
ing. thane was no political activity
in, its.- insifotions in Jerusalem,
Kahalani said: ”1 believe 5096 of
them are unirue.” *

“The government took a deci-
sion on II March to shat down
four such inanitions,” said MK
Moshe Shahal (Labor) who
requested the meeting, but it
appeared that “this is a govern-
ment which declares one thing and
does the opposite." He said that
the previous government had
decided not to take action against
Palestinian institutions unless it
was convinced that die action
could stand-up in court in tbe
event of a petition to the High
Court of Justice.

Kahalani said that the
Palestinians had now taken a deci-
c sion to fight for Jerusalem as their
capital “We now have to fight an

open war to keep Jerusalem as our

undivided capital,'’ he said. “We
have drawn up a long-term plan in
which we will invest huge sums.”
He said that “the Har Homa issue
is part of the overall unified
Jerusalem plan ”

Kahalani warned the PLO that
action would -be taken agai nst i t
. because of its part in the current
unrest “There are PLO institutions
which we have not taken action
against,” Kahalani said .“Now the
PLO is active in toe disturbances
and we have to consider whether to
close its institutions in Jerusalem.”
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
said tharthere was anti-Israel polit-
ical activity in' other parts of east-
. erti Jerusalem . too, noting: tbe
atmosphere in. Arabic-langnage
schools in toe capital and the con-
stant ' ferment . on the Temple
' Mount . ' :

By MCHAL YUOELMAN

Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu will not object to a
meeting with Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat, if he asks
for one, but wfil insist tbe meeting
focus on his Obligation to. fight
against terrorism, sources said yes-
terday.

However, the sources said, no
such meeting has been scheduled
and no contacts to schedule one
have been made by the
Palestinians, despite Arafat's state-
ment that he is ready for a meeting.

“We never objected to having
the meeting, it was Arafat who
evaded it,” one source said.

Netanyahu yesterday reiterated
his proposal to move directly to
final status talks, "which is the best
way to deal with tbe really tough

problems and find the common
denominator.”

Speaking at a police award cere-
mony, he noted that "the time and
effort we expend on the details of
the interim agreement seem
increasingly redundant, compared
to the time and effort we could
invest in the permanent settlement,
and they're nor building mutual
confidence, either.”

He added: “There is only one
way to get out of the present crisis.
The Palestinian Authority must
understand that first it must do
what it has undertaken to do in the
agreement, and do what any
authority and government which
respects itself does - fight terror-
ism to the end."

He said the PA did fight terror-
ism to a considerable extent during
the past year, and it can do so now.

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Police crack down on car theft

Police completed a special pro-
ject to catch car thieves and
retrieve stolen car parts on
Monday, Judea and Samaria Police
District spokesman Opher Sivan
yesterday.

During Operation On Wheels,,
which lasted for a week, Sivan
said police checked over 3,400
passengers and 2,200 vehicles.
Six stolen cars were discov-
ered, four in Judea and Samaria

'and two in the Jordan Valley, he
said. In addition police made
12 arrests, and four people
were held for investigation.

Among those arrested, said
Sivan, were a truck driver found
hiding stolen car parts and a
stolen car. He added police were
able to contact the car’s owners.
Two car thieves were caught
while stealing a car in Jerusalem,
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in brief

Phosphoric acid leaks from Negev train wreck

A freight train derailed in the Negev yesterday and two of its
ank cars overturned, leaking poisonous phosphoric acid.
Firefighters and railroad maintenance workers handled the leak,
which was not considered dangerous to the public, since the acci-
dent occurred shortly after the 25-car-long bain left the Roiem
plant in Mishor Roiem, an unpopulated area. A second engine was
sent to bring the 21 cars that did not derail back to the plant, and a
crane was summoned to get the remaining cars and engine back
on the track after the phosphoric acid leak was plugged. I dm

Swiss Holocaust fund given another SFr 20m.

Swiss banks have pledged another SFr 20 million to the
Holocaust humanitarian fund, bringing the fund to SFr 285m.,
the Swiss Bankets Association said yesterday. The humanitarian
fund, which is to benefit needy Jewish and non- Jewish victims
of the Holocaust, will be administered by a seven-member
Jewish-Swiss executive, which will determine the criteria for
need. It is understood that special consideration will be given to
survivors in Eastern Europe who have not been eligible for the
German reparations programs. Marilyn Henry

Israel Prize for Journalism announced

Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer yesterday
announced that the Israel Prize for Journalism will be awarded
this year to Shmuel Schnitzer (print), Haim Yavin (broadcasting)
and David Rubinger (photography). Hammer informed all three
by telephone. The awards committee noted that Schnitzer
worked his way up from a beat reporter to the chief editor of
Ma'anv, Yavin’s career has spanned nearly three decades at
Israel Television, where he still serves as chief anchor of
Channel 1 's nightly news; and Rubinger has covered most of
Israel's history as a press photographer since 1947. The prizes
will be awarded at the annua] ceremony at the end of
Independence Day in Jerusalem. him

Oppenheim painting cfiscovered by accident

A painting by Moritz Oppenheim (1800-1882). the first impor-
tant Jewish painter of the modem era, was recently discovered
by accident in Tel Aviv. A woman discovered the small oil paint-
ing (20 cm. x 16 .5 cm.) between the pages of a book belonging
to her late husband, who had fled Berlin in 1 939. She brought it
to Sotheby's for appraisal, thinking it might be worth several
hundred dollars.

Sotheby expert David Breyer Weil said it reminded him of
Oppenheim’s work and, upon closer examination with a magni-
fying glass, discovered Oppenheim's initials on the painting. He
valued it at $40,000-$60,000. lam

Channel 2 now on satellite

Those with satellite dishes can now get Channel 2 via the
Intelsat and Amos satellites. Focus on 1 1598 Mh at azimuth
236.8 degrees, 34 degrees op. and 4 degrees west.(Amos) or
1 1017 Mh for Intelsat. The service started Monday and the
Second Television & Radio Authority says that this is an interim
solution until a contract is signed with one or the other of the
two satellites. Helen Kaye

Israel Theater Prize finalists nominated

The Gesher Theater's production of Kfitr leads the list of final-
ists for the second Israel Theater Prize with nominations in ten
categories, including Best Play, Best Playwright (Yeboshua
Sobol), Best Director (Yevgeny Arye) and Best Actor (Israel
Demidov), followed by Har bo Zaz (Unmoving Mountain) by
Gilad Evron with seven, and Ana Galactia, by Howard Barker.
Vayomer V ayelech, director Rina Yerishalmi’s biblical epic, and
Tikhm Hatzot (Midnight Prayer), by Rami Danon and A muon
Levi, with five nominations each.

This year’s ceremony will be at the Noga Theater in Jaffa on
April 9 and will be broadcast live on Channel f. Helen Kaye

Reuma Weizman stops in to see six-month-old Shani Avrahami (being held by her father Mickey), who was wounded in last
Friday's Tel Aviv bombing, at IchiJov Hospital yesterday. The baby's mother. Dr. Michal Avrahami, was killed in the attack.

(Dana Stanan/hiad Sun)

3 suspects released in TA bomb probe

By DAVID RUDGE and RA1NE MARCUS

Three Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion
of having aided the Tel Aviv cafe suicide
bomber were released yesterday after
inquiries showed they were not involved.

The three, all residents of Umm el-Fahm,
were arrested on Saturday night after a note
with their names on it was found on the
remains of the bomber.

Marwah Mahajneh, 45. his son Sa’id.
20. who are in the poultry business, and
Salim Jabarin. 21. a construction worker,
ail said that the* had business dealings
with the brother of the bomber and also
knew members of his family, which was

probably how he had the card with their
names on it.

The three were remanded for nine days on
Sunday by Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court
after police submitted a confidential report
allegedly indicating their involvement with
the bomber.

Mahajneh told the court that he had been
at home and later travelled to Moshav Beit
Yehoshua, while his son had been deliver-
ing chickens to Samaria at the time of die
attack. Jabarin said he had been working
at a construction site in Netanya. They
were released jftc* aolitr -.'necked tiiei:
alibis.

Meanwhile, police are continuing to patrol

areas in which Arabs illegally here from the
territories are known to be living. Since last
Friday's attack Tel Aviv police have continu-
ally conducted spot checks for those illegal-
ly working or staying here.

Over these past two days Rehovot police
have arrested 1 1 Arabs illegally in the city.
They were employed in markets and at build-
ing sites. Three employers in Yavne and
Rehovot were arrested on suspicion of ille-
gally hiring workers.

Meanwhile, the police special operations
division is preparing new plans to crack
down on illegal workers and those employ-
ing them. In 1996, 1.800 criminal files were
opened against such employers.

Israel protests Ashrawi speech in Geneva

By URIEL HEILMAN

Israel has slammed the UN Commission on
Human Rights for allowing Palestinian repre-
sentative Honan Ashrawi to address the group
in Geneva last week.

Citing Friday's breach in protocol that
allowed Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian
observer delegation, to speak from the podium,
a practice reserved only for officials of “exist-
ing slates,” Israeli representative Yosef
Lamdan said that the commission's decision to
set such a precedent was regrettable in light of
Friday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv and the
recent blood-libel accusation levelled against

Israel by Palestinian representative Nabil
Rantiawi.

In the speech she made just hours after the
terrorist attack in Tel Aviv’s Apropo cafe,
Ashrawi declared that Israeli bulldozers were
burying the peace process. Protesting the deci-
sion that allowed Ashrawi to speak, Lamdan
requested that the commission reconsider her
participation in the proceedings in a letter to
Miroslav Soraol of the Czech Republic, chair-
man of the 53rd session of the UN Commission
on Human Rights.

Somol, in a letter of response to Lamdan,
condemned Ramlawi's recent accusation that
Israeli authorities "infected by injection 300

Palestinian children with the HIV virus during
the years of the intifada" and expressed his
conviction that such racist and discriminatory
sentiments would not be tolerated in the com-
mission. The chairman also agreed to circulate
Lamdan’s letter and his own response as offi-
cial documents of the commission.

Christian Solidarity representative David
Littman urged Somol to follow up an his promise
to act against die “mendacious aid racist allega-
tions" of the Palestinian representative.

Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians at
the commission in Geneva have been high
since the beginning of construction at die Har
Homa site in Jerusalem.

Na’amat State should help pay for child-care Kostner Spared death penalty

By ESTHER HECHT

Unlike working mothers in the
US, women here have never
been able to deduct child-care
expenses from their taxable
income. On the contrary, recent
legislation here increased work-
ing women’s taxes.

To rectify the situation.

Na’araat, the working women’s
organization, launched a cam-
paign yesterday to get the state
to carry pan of working parents'

child-care costs.

In the first stage. Na'amat is
proposing a change in ihe
National Insurance Institute
Law that would give parents
who work outside their homes a
monthly stipend for care of chil-
dren up to six years of age. The
stipend would be NIS 282 for
the first child and NIS 141 for

each additional child, in addi-
tion to any other benefits to

which working parents are enti-
tled.

According to a study prepared
for Na’amat, this compensation
would enable as many as 75,000
women to enter the work force,
adding as much as NIS >1.3 bil-
lion to the GNP and NIS 1.1 bil-
lion to tax revenues.

A public opinion survey com-
missioned by Na’amat showed
that 84 percent of women with
children under four years of age

believe the proposal would

encourage more women to go
out to work.

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By MARILYN HENRY

NEW YORK - A New Jersey
jury has spared the life of Avi
Kostner. who pleaded .guilty to
murdering his two children,
because, he said, he couid not
bear his former wife's not rais-
ing them as Jews.

The jury, after 11 hours of

deliberations over three days, on

Monday night said it was dead-
locked over whether to impose

the death penalty.

Kostner, who faced death by

lethal injection, is expected to
be sentenced to life in prison on

May 16.

In a dramatic courtroom

appearance two weeks ago,
Kostner angrily asked for the

death penalty.

Kostner pleaded guilty to

drugging and suffocating Geri
Beth. 12. and Ryan, 10. on June
26. 1 994, days before they were
to move to Florida from

Teaneck. New Jersey.

The jury was split between
those who viewed Kostner, 52,
as a vengeful man who wanted

Avi Kostner (API

to spite his wife and those who
thought his actions resulted

from an abusive childhood and a
history of menial illness,

according to yesterday’s edi-
tions of the local newspaper,

The Bergen Record.

Both Kostner and his ex-wife,

Lynn Mison, have assailed the
Family Court, where the couple

waged a 7 -year custody battle.
The divorce decree called for
the children to worship with
both parents and to make their
own decision about religion
when they turned 16. Mison had
converted to Judaism after her
marriage to Kostner in 1979, but
reverted to Christianity after the
couple separated In 1986.

Chronically unemployed and
once referred to as a “shtetl

schnorrer,” Kostner suffered
from decades of mental illness.

Nonetheless,' he was active in

the local Orthodox community.

Kostner also was well-versed
in Jewish tradition and history,

which he invoked in an agitated
statement to the court during the
penalty phase of bis trial.

*’Z am not the first father in his-
tory to kill his children to pre-
vent conversion,” he said. “I
could not allow their Jewish
souls to be cut off from Judaism.
It is within Jewish history, dar-
ing the Crusades, the Inquisition
- fathers killed their own chil-
dren to prevent them from being
converted ”

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Wingate memorial set for today

By DAVID RUDGE

The annual memorial service to
mark the anniversary of the death
of Orde Wingate, the British offi-
cer who helped lay the founda-
tions for the formation of the IDF.
is to be held today, for the first
time, at Yemin Orde, the youth vil-
lage on Mt. Carmel which is
named after him.

Wingate, a devout Christian,
was a fearless fighter and
renowned military tactician, who
fervently believed in the return of
Jews to their historic homeland
and the rebirth of the State of
Israel.

“Maj.-Gen. Orde Wingate, who
died in a plane crash in Burma in
1944, was known as ‘The Friend'

of Israel and was in fact one of the
founding fathers of what today is
the IDF,” said Dr. Chaim Peri.

the prime minister's “Defender of

die Quid” award, is dedicated to
Wingate’s heritage.

More than J ,000 people, includ-
ing members of the Jewish War
Veterans of the US, British and
Commonwealth war veterans, IDF
officers and soldiers, die mili tary
attaches of several countries, gov-
ernment officials, and children
from the youth village, are to take
part in the memorial.

A letter sent by late British
prime minister Winston Churchill
to Wingate's widow Lama to mark
the official opening, of Yemin
Orde in 1953 wiH be read out dur-

Orde Wingate

director of Yemin Orde.

He noted that part of the educa-
tional curriculum at the village,
which was last year presented with

Fait of Churchill's letter reads;
“I am delighted to know that there
stands on Mt- Carmel a monument
to the friendship which should
always unite Great Britain and
Israel."

Parents group
official:
Guides call
shots on
school trips

BvAHVEH DEAN COHEN

Guides in charge of school trips
who make last-minute changes in
approved routes are rarely ques-
tioned about such changes, an
Israel Parents Association official
yesterday told the Pressler
Commission, which is investigat-
ing the attack by a Jordanian sol-
dier at Naharayim which claimed
(he lives of seven eighth-grade
girls on March 13.

Moshe Sheinfeld, who heads the
trip? committee for the associa-
tion, said after testifying before
the commission that the guide on
such trips is “the ultimate authori-
ty," and if he decides to take the
pupils to a different site than that
for which there is a permit, “no
one will argue with him.”
Teachers and parents, he said, are
busy dealing with the children,
and rarely question such deci-
sions.

Sheinfeld said that this was the
flaw in existing rules for such trips
that would allow a tragedy like
that which occurred at Naharayim
to happen.

“If a guide says to the group:
There's a beautiful waterfall over
there,’ and wants to go to it. even
though it’s not on the original per-
mit, no one will say anything. In
99.9 percent of the cases, the class
will so. enjoy it, and that’s die end
of it No one will check if it's
allowed or not," he said. Changes
in the weather might also lead to
guides changing trip routes, he
said.

In the case of Naharayim,
Sheinfeld told the commission,
police there were .also not
informed that the Jordanian site
was off-limits, which is why no
one stopped the AMTT Fuerst
School group or dozens of others
like it that visited there.

Sheinfeld said there is hardly
any checking up of such trips,
adding it was too bad that “only
after something like this happens,
does everyone wake up."

He added that he personally had
never seen any Education
Ministry documents barring trips
to Naharayim, although he agreed
that there may be confusion over
which parts of the rile were or. :
were not off-limits to school
trips.

Today, commission members are
due to visit Beit Sbemesh to con-
tinue the investigation.

Meanwhile, Maya Shmuel, the
schoolgirl who was seriously
wounded in the Naharayim attack,
was released yesterday from
Hadassab-Unrversiiy Hospital in
Jerusalem’s Ein Kerera. Hi la Ivri,
also wounded in the attack,
remains in Hadassah after being
transferred from Poria Hospital
near Tiberias.

C’ttee presses
for reparations
for Bulgarian
Jewish survivors

ByAHYEHDEAH COHEH

Knesset Immigration and
Absorption Committee chair-
woman Naomi Blumenthal yester-
day called on the German govern-
ment tp amend the criteria for
awarding reparations to Holocaust

survivors to include those who
lived in Nan -created ghettos that

were not walled in.

Blumenthal made the demand to
amend the “absurd” situation after
hearing from survivors from

Bulgaria who said they had been

denied reparations because their
ghettos were not enclosed by
walls.

Blumenthal said she would
appeal to Prime Minister
BLnyamin Netanyahu and Foreign
Minister David Levy to pressure

the German government in this

regard, and wonld also appeal
directly to German . . Chancellor
Helmut Kohl.

Germany’s ambassador to Israel
told the committee that his gov-
ernment is aware of the problems
within die reparation system, and
said a new DM 80 million fund
had been established to provide
reparations to . survivors from
Eastern Europe,' which may be

able to pay survivors from
Bulgaria.

Snzana Konorti, a survivor from
Bulgaria, said that it is imperative
that something be done on their
behalf, as “we have' suffered
enough, and we must not be seen
as beggars." -

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Independent films win Oscar glory

By LYNX BOER

I£>S ANGEUES (AP) -. When
The English Pariera, bearing a seri-
ous literary pedigree and tacking
stars, came . knocking on
Hollywood's 1 dooc the studios
smelled jsatey grosses and turned
up their noses.

Next lime such an opportunity
comes ^ ^*eor way, executives may
focus on a different nuznbeis.game
r the nine Oscars, mduding best
picture, director, and supporting
actress honors, won Monday night
by the wartime drama of Jove ted
betrayal;

When^ studios make only block-
busters like Independence Day,
they earn a box-office wtadfall but
lose w*en h comes to Academy
Awards prestige. Could the out-
come of the 69th Academy Awards
change their outlook? Even emcee
' Billy Crystal tweaked the industry.
He reminisced about the last time
he hosted the ceremony, three
years ago: “Back then, the major
studios .were nominated for
Oscars," he said.

Independent films dominated the
awards ceremony, with a single
major honor going to a big studio
production: Cuba Gooding Jr.'s
best supporting actor trophy for
Jerry Maguire . Independence
Day, last year’s top-grossing film
about an alien invasion with $300
million-plus, earned a single
award, for visual effects. By com-
parison, The English Patient has
earned $62 mfflioo.

Because rinaller films tend to
make stars, not hire them, the cere-
mony gave viewers an opportunity
to discover new faces.

Geoffrey Rush, the Australian
stage actor who played emotional-
ly disturbed pianist David Helfgott
in Shine, picked up the best-actor
trophy.

Frances McDormand, named
best actress for her role as a home-
spun Midwestern police chief in
Fargo, had watched husband Joel
Coen and brother-in-law Ethan
Coen aecept the Oscar for best
original screenplay.

In her speech, McDormand
offered congratulations to produc-
tion companies that allow film-
makers to "make decisions based

moviemaker’s life “ said the film’s
producer. Saul Zacntz. "This hap-
pens when you see and hear people
all over the world share their laugh-
ter. their crying and their sudden
gasps at identical screen
moments." Zaeniz’s film was res-
cued by Miramax after 20th
CenturyFox, an earlier supporter,
reportedly wanted to replace the
film’s lead actors with box-office

And the winner is...

.This year’s Academy Award winners weir.

B EST PICTURE: The English Patient. ■

A CTO R: Geoffrey Rush, Shine.

. ACTRESS: Frances.McDormand, Forgo.

■ SUPPO RTIN G A CTOR : Cuba Gooding Jr, Jerry Maguire.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Juliette Binoche/ The English
Patient.

DIR ECTOR-. Anthony Mmghella, The English Patient.
FQRE IGN FILM: Kolya, Czech Republic.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade.
_ ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen,
Fargo.

ART DIRECTION, CINEMATOGRAPHY. SOUND, ORIGI-
NAL DRAMATIC SCORE, COSTUME, FILM EDITING: The
English Patient.

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING: The Ghost and the Darkness.
ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE: Rachel
Ponman. Emma.

ORIGINAL SONG: You Must Love Me from Evita, Andrew
Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: When We Were Kings.
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Breathing Lessons.

MAKEUP: The Nutty Professor.

VISUAL EFFECTS: Independence Day.

on qualifications and not just mar-
ket value.’*

Although The English Patient
was made outside the studio sys-
tem, it represents the kind of old-
fashioned epic filmmaking that
academy voters traditionally honor.

"Tie movement of passion is the
most gratifying satisfaction in any

names such as Demi Moore.

The last film to win as many
Oscars was The Last Emperor in
1988. The English Patient, which
had the most nominations with 12,
also won for cinematography, dra-
matic score, film editing, sound,
costume and an direction. The all-
time winner was Ben Hur with 1 1

Oscars in 1959.

The film’s director, Anthony
a Minghella, was honored, as was
1 co-star Juliette Binoche, who por-
trayed a compassionate Canadian
nurse. Her best supporting actress
victor) - upset predictions dial vet-
eran Lauren Bacall would claim
her first Oscar for The Mirror Has
Two Faces. “I’m so surprised,"
said Paris-bom Binoche, who. like
many, thought the statuette would
go to Bacall, “I didn't, prepare
anything. 1 thought Lauren was
going to get it. And I think she
deserves it." •

"It’s not my faull!"the actress
exclaimed backstage after repealed
questions about Bacall’s loss.

Composer Andrew Lloyd
Webber, celebrating his best song
win with Tim Rice for You Must
Love Me sung by Madonna from
Evita. acknowledged the domi-
nance of The English Patient.
"Thank heavens there wasn’t a
song in The English Patient is all I
can say," Webber joked.

The ceremony boasted a rare
winner with a distinctly down-
home Southern name: Billy Bob
Thomron, the director-star of Sting
Blade, who captured the Oscar for
best adapted screenplay.

Thornton, quickly donning Ids
trademark baseball cap after leav-
ing the stage, was asked if he
planned to call a fellow Arkansas
native. President Clinton. “I think
he's going to get in contact with
me. 1 don’t have the phone num-
ber," Thornton joked.

Ibe evening’s most touching
moment came when Muhammad
Ali and George Foreman, subjects
of the honored documentary
WhcnWe Were Kings, drew a stand-
ing ovation.

"After all, it's a history piece
about a middle-aged black man.
That's one hell of a middle-aged
black man," producer David
Sonnenberg said backstage.

Winning the Oscar for best for-
eign language film was Kolya,
from the Czech Republic. Kolya,
set just before the fall of the Berlin
Walt is about an old man who mar-
ries a young Russian woman for
convenience. She soon moves to

West Germany, leaving her son in
his care.

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush clutches his Best Actor Oscar for ‘Shine* Monday night. (Reuter)

Oscar night - good for the Jews?

ByTOHTUCEHO

Lauren Bacall (right) greets Juliette Binoche at a post-Oscar party Monday night, after the French
actress beat the veteran to the Best Supporting Actress award. (ap>

LOS ANGELES - The 69th annual
Academy Awards are history, and the one
remaining question facing ethnocentric read-
ers is. Was It Good for the Jews? The answer
is a firm yes and no.

It was a grand evening for veteran film-
maker Saul Zaentz, who picked up an Oscar
for producing best picture winner The
English Patient, as well as the honorary
Irving Thalberg award for his lifetime contri-
butions to the film industry.

The New Jersey native, whose home base
is Berkeley, California’, has now pulled off
the rare feat of winning Oscars in three con-

secutive decades. He started with One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and
Amadeus in 1984.

It wasn’t quite as happy an occasion for
Lauren Bacall, who was tipped as the
favorite to gamer best supporting actress
honors for her star turn as Barbra Streisand’s
mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces - She
lost to The English Patient's Juliette
Binoche, who seemed as surprised as every-
one else to have beaten out Bacall.

After days or rumors and denials, concert
pianist David Helfgott, the real-life hero of
Shine , showed up and performed to thunder-
ous applause.

Geoffrey Rush, the non-Jewish Australian

actor, got the best actor nod for his portraytil
of Helfgott in Shine.

Host Billy Crystal spiced his routine with
Jewish allusions. He commented on the all-
black, semi-Hassidic outfit worn by presen-
ter Kevin Spacey. and referred to the First
Wives Club trio of Goldie Hawn, Bette
Midler and Diane Keaton as the "three yen-
tas from Eastwick." The gags went over well
with the Hollywood in-crowd, but must have
puzzled some of the 1 billion television
viewers in 100 countries.

In the less glamorous categories, the broth-
ers Ethan and Joel Coen walked off with an
Academy Award for their original screenplay
for Fargo. ■

Papua rebels surround parliament

PORT MORESBY (Reuter) - About 100
politicians were trapped inside Papua New
Guinea's parliament yesterday evening by
armed 'rebel soldiers and demonstrators
protesting outside after Prune Minister Sir
Julius Chari survived a motion to force his
resignation. • '

"We don’t want the politicians to leave, one
of the 80 or more soldiers outside the parlia-
ment compound said.

-The soldiers, armed with M- 1 6s and pistols,
were searching cars carrying media and parlia-
ment employees out of the building in a clear
attempt at intimidation.

Hundreds of anti-government protesters were
camped around the parliament in defiance of
the curfew, blocking roads and demanding that
Chan resign for hiring- mercenaries to end the
secessionist conflict on Bougainville island.

Rebel commander Major Walter Enuma
arrived late in the night and ordered die sol-
diers to avoid confrontation.

“We respect die law of the land - the parlia-
ment has made its decision and the military
will respect it," Enuma sald-

“There will be no confrontation. I will not
allow it,” Enuma said. He then entered parlia-
ment to assure the politicians inside of their

safety. . ■ ,

Protesters stoned a handful of cars earlier in
the day after hearing of the feihire of the stand-
down motion, and many feared violence would
remra to the streets of Port Moresby, which
was rtxked by two days of looting last week.

Parliament voted 58 to 39 against a motion
dial urged Chan and two close aides to step
down while an inquiry was held into die mer-
cenary contract.

Chan himself took the floor only once in the
rowdy five-hour debate, saying he had hired
the mercenaries to prevent more Papua New
Guinea soldiers dying on Bougainville.

- “Sometimes you lave to make decisions in
the best interests of die security of the nation
and we made this decision and will not com-
promise that decision," Chan said. “I had to put
the lives of our soldiers on Bougainville first"

Chan’s whereabouts were unknown last
night- There were reports that Ire had left par-
liament shortly after the vote.

The crisis began last week when army chief
Jerry Singirok demanded the mercenary con-
tract be terminated and that Chan, Deputy
Prune Minister Chris Haiveta and Defence
Minister Mathias Ijape resign.

Singirok was promptly sacked but remains in
control of the army. His dismissal led to violent
street protests that saw former colonial power
Australia put troops on standby to evacuate
around 10,000 Australian nationals.

Singirok Friday repeated a demand that Chan
.quit and set a deadline of yesterday, but the
army remains in its- barracks.

About five minutes after yesterday’s vote,
ministers were warned to stay inside the build-
ing for security reasons as protesters stoned
cars leaving parliament. Media cars were also -
periodically stoned during the evening.

On the other side of the building, around
1,000 noisy protesters were joined by a small
group of armed soldiers who sat peacefully on
die ground.

Armed soldiers had filtered down to the par-
liament building through the night, but protest
numbers had dwindled.

The motion against Chan was introduced in
parliament by opposition leader Bill Skate,
governor of the capital, Port Moresby.

Skate told parliament that the South Pacific
nation was divided and its international credi-
bility was in tatters because Chan agreed to
the $36 million contract with British-based
mercenary firm Sandline without consulting
the cabinet.

“Our nation has been tom apart with division
and more and more questions about corruption
in high office." Skate told parliament as minis-
ters from both sides shouted each other down.

Defense Minister Ijape said the Sandline
contract made financial and military sense.
Ijape blamed Australia and New Zealand for
refusing to supply Papua New Guinea’s
defense force with helicopter gunships and
other military hardware to fight Bougainville
rebels.

He said both the Papua New Guinea defense
force and the rebels had die same low-level
weaponry, making the war unwinnable.

“We were not in a position of strength. They
know our weaknesses and every time we call
for these peace meetings they take it as a joke,’’
Ijape said.

Bubis: No to German cut
in Jewish immigration

BONN (AP) - The leader of
Germany’s Jewish community
yesterday rejected a politician's
suggestion that he help negotiate
a limit on Jewish immigration
from the former Soviet Union.

“I will not talk with the federal
government about what number
of Jews living in Gentiany is
appropriate." said Ignalz Bubis.
head of the Central Council of
Jews in Germany.

The idea, suggested by a law-
maker in Chancellor Helmut
Kohl’s ruling coalition, is remi-
niscent of Polish Jews bargain-
ing about their fate with Nazi
occupiers during World War U,
Bubis said.

“I definitely will not hold such
talks," Bubis said. "This is a

matter for the government"

Kohl's party reportedly is plan-
ning to curb working opportuni-
ties for foreigners from outside
western Europe because of
record postwar unemployment in
Germany.

Measures being drafted by the
Christian Democratic Union
include immigration quotas for
Jewish immigrants arid ethnic
Germans from the former Soviet
Union, according to Der Spiegel
newsmagazine.

A lawmaker from Kohl’s
Bavarian ally, the arch-conserva-
tive Christian Social Union, sug-
gested in a newspaper interview
yesterday that Bubis negotiate a
quota for Jewish immigrants
with the government.

“The humanitarian contingent
for Jews cannot go on forever,"
Wolfgang Zeitlmann, the CSU
domestic affairs spokesman,
told the Cologne tabloid
Express.

Bubis denounced the idea as a
populist appeal to anti-immi-
grant voters.

Some 65,000 former Soviet
Jews and their family members
have moved to Germany since
1991 under rules that allow state
governments to screen would-be
migrants in this category but do
not set a limit.

Kohl’s government agreed to
the arrangement at the behest of
German Jewish leaders, who
wanted to attract new members
to the community.

13 Zulus convicted
in ANC massacre

Wiesenthal wants Peron Nazi letters

BUENOS AIRES (AP) - Tbe
Simon Wiesenthal Center asked
on Monday for access to files
said to document ' contact
between foriner Argentinian
President Juan Peron. his wife,
Evita, and leading officials of
the Third Reich. : ■ ■

Earlier this month. President
Carlos Menem offered Jewish
groups access to Central Bank
archives to determine whether
any gold plundered by the Nazis
landed in Argentina!

The center has asked several
ebuhtries in Europe and South
America to search their bank
files for more than -.300 names.

including Adolf Hitler and his
mistress, Eva Braun.

“We! re pleased that President
Menem has indicated that our
list is currently being investigat-
ed," said the dean of the Los
Angeles-based center, . Rabbi
Marvin Hier. "But we think

there needs to he an even more
complete disclosure on the con-
. nectiotr’ between the Peron
•regime and the Nazis.”

- It has been widely debated
whether Peron ’s 1 946-55 gov-
ernment was ideologically
aligned with Hitler and’
allowed Nazis Into the country
because of their scientific and

military expertise.

Just how many Nazis entered
Argentina is not publicly
-known.

Among those who came was
Adolf Eichmann, who oversaw
the deportation of millions of
Jews, and former SS Capt Erich
Priebke, who participated in a
1944 massacre of 335 civilians
outside Rome.

A Jewish historian who has
spent four years sifting through
some 22,000 documents from
the national archive says Peron
set up a team to find key Nazis
and offer them safe passage to
Argentina after World War IL

Plane hits car
at La Guardia

NEW YORK (AP) - A private
plane landing at La Guardia
Airport hit a car on the runway,
halting takeoffs and landings for
about 90 minutes early yesterday.

No injuries were reported in the
collision between a Gulf Stream Q
aircraft with four people on board
and an airport maintenance vehi-
cle carrying two people, said
Officer Michael Dalton, a Port
Authority spokesman.

Dal toi said he did not know
why the vehicle was on the run-
way as the plane came in to land.

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -
Thirteen supporters of the Zulu
nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party
were convicted of murder yester-
day in the Christmas Day mas-
sacre of 18 political rivals in 1995.

Judge Hilary Squires ruled the
attack on a rural village about 1 30
kilometers south of Durban was a
political assault by Inkatha to rid
the area of supporters of die rival
African National Congress.

One of the men convicted was
Sipho Ngcobo, the Inkatha leader
in the area. During the trial, sur-
vivors of the attack identified
Ngcobo as one of the leaders of
foe mob of 2,000 people armed
with guns, spears and clubs that
descended on Shobashobane.

Five other defendants were
acquitted in the case. All foe
convicted could receive life

prison sentences.

Inkatha and the ANC fought
years of low-level civil war in the
traditional Zulu homeland that
killed more than 15,000 people.

The Christmas massacre in
Shobashobane shocked foe coun-
try more than a year after the
nation’s first all-race election in
1 994 that ended apartheid.

It caused President Nelson
Mandela's ANC-led government
to bolster a special police unit in
KwaZulu-Natal province.

In his ruling. Squires said the
attack in which 18 ANC support-
ers were shot, hacked and stabbed
to death by a mob of heavily-
armed men and women was "car-
ried out by supporters of Inkatha
who were manifestly hostile to foe
ANC inhabitants . of
Shobashobane."

Swedish
minister gets
neo-Nazi
letter bomb

STOCKHOLM ( AP) - The neo-
Nazi group Combat ,18 tried to
send an inoperative letter bomb to
Swedish Justice Minister Laila
Freivalds, reports said yesterday.

A padded envelope containing
two sticks of dynamite and a deto-
nator. with Combat 1 8 listed as the
sender, was sent last week.

Anders Eriksson, chief of
Sweden's security police, con-
firmed a letter-bomb was
addressed to Freivalds.

The newspaper Aftonbladet said
the envelope was addressed to
Freivalds’ former residence and
that post office employees became
suspicious when re-addressing it
The explosives and the detonator
were not connected.

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The Lubotsky compromise

T be main subject of the last cabinet meet-
ing was not the deadlock with the
Palestinians or the threat of terrorism.
When the bomb went off in a Tel Aviv cafe on
Friday, the cabinet was not addressing threats to
Israel, but to die governing coalition of
Binyamin Netanyahu. The topic was the
Conversion Law that is being put forward by the
religious parties.

For a long time now, the status quo on con-
versions has been a delicate and quifky compro-
mise: Non-Orthodox conversions performed
abroad are recognized for legal purposes here,
while tbe same conversions performed in Israel
are not. Neither side has been happy with this
situation, but an uneasy peace has persisted.

This peace was destabilized when the
Supreme Court ruled that the Interior Ministry
did pot have any legal basis For its practice of
not recognizing, for legal purposes. Reform
and Conservative conversions performed in
Israel. The practice was not struck down bv the
court,- but the court decision left the current
practice vulnerable to legal challenge from the
Reform and Conservative movements. The reli-
gious parties have since been trying to pass a
law that would protect die status quo from
pending legal challenges, and perhaps even
push die status quo in the other direction by
making it more difficult for Diaspora conver-
sions to be recognized.

Though the Cabinet approved a version of the
Conversion Law at its meeting, the law should
not be brought to the Knesset floor before Third
Way MK Alex Lubotsky has a chance to per-
suade both sides to accept bis compromise pro-
posal instead.

Lubotsky's compromise is so straightforward
and sensible that it renews one's faith in the
ability of the political process actually to come
up with solutions to problems, rather than mak-
ing them worse. His proposal is for the Reform
and Conservative movements to drop their court
cases and for the Orthodox parties to drop their
proposed legislation. That way. tbe status quo
would be maintained exactly while a more per-
manent solution could be worked out
The strange thing about this fight is that it is
not so much between two political forces with-
in Israel as between the Israeli religious parties
and the leadership of Reform and Conservative
Jewry in America. The pawns in this transat-
lantic battle of the titans are tire tens of thou-
sands of non-Jewish immigrants to Israel who
would like to convert, but who are not willing or
able to meet current Orthodox conversion
requirements.

The battle cry of the Orthodox establishment
is that an “epidemic" of non-Orthodox conver-

sions is threatening to split the Jewish people.
The Orthodox nightmare scenario is a situation
in which a major portion of Diaspora Jewry is
not recognized by them as Jews because they
were not balachically converted, or are descen-
dants of “non-Jews." There is certainly room for
concern on this score, but the solution is not for
Israeli Orthodoxy to wage a fruitless battle to
delegitimize non-Orthodox Judaism in
America. Even if the religious parties were to
tear up the status quo and eliminate the recogni-
tion of foreign non-Orthodox conversions - an
option that fortunately is not in die cards - they
would not make a serious dent in what they
claim to be an existential crisis for .the Jewish
people. The numbers of non-Orthodox conver-
sions would continue to grow, and tile split that
the Orthodox fear would worsen.

Tbe pursuit of the Conversion Law may be
good politics for tile religious parties, but it can
only distract from, and perhaps even threaten, the
pursuit of real solutions to die problem. At the
end of the day, tbe only solution is for the major
strands of Judaism to agree on a conversion
process that they ail can live wife. Hus is not as
impossible as it may seem from fee perspective
of either end of the religious spectrum. It will,
however, entail compromise by both sides.

The non-Orthodox movements may have to
tolerate a solution feat, on the issue of conver-
sion. does not treat their rabbis wife complete
equality and symmetry in comparison wife their
Orthodox colleagues. The Orthodox, in turn,
will have to modify their current interpretation
of fee halachic requirements feu* conversion, in
favor of more lenient - but equally valid - inter-
pretations that were followed at other points in
Jewish history.

Hie Lubotsky proposal is a reasonable one. as
is a related proposal by Meretz MK Dedi
Zucker to remove the nationality designation
from the identity cards carried by all Israeli cit-
izens. When asked in the Knesset about tbe
Zucker proposal. Interior Minister Eli Suissa
pledged to consider it seriously.

It makes sense to eliminate fee designation
from the document which is offensive to those
who are against discrimination between Jews
and non-Jews, and to those who believe the
state has no say in determining who is a Jew.

For any of these proposals to go anywhere,
however, there has to be a modicum of good
will, mutual respect and recognition feat all the
parties share a sincere desire for what is best for
the Jewish people as a whole. The place to
resolve family feuds is not in fee courtroom or
in the legislature, but in direct discussion wife
open ears and the shared goal of the unity of the
Jewish people in mind.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sir - While Michael Oren's sug-
gestion feat the peace process be
frozen (“Freeze the process for
now," March 23) is welcomed, his
subsequent recommendations are
fundamentally flawed.

Mr. Oren advocates keeping the
peace talks frozen until the
“Palestinians eschew in writing all
use of violence, or threat of vio-
lence, in negotiations." and until
fee re is a “demonstrable crack-
down on Hamas." Unfortunately,
we have been there and done that
Arafat, from the September 1993
signing of fee Declaration of
Principles to the recent Hebron
agreement, has reiterated bis
pledge to eschew violence.
Moreover, there have been a myr-
iad of demonstrable crackdowns
on Hamas by the PA However,
neither Arafat's promises nor his
demonstrations of controlling
Hamas have proven effective.

Sir, - There seems to be dis-
crimination against immigrant
dentists.

The dental licensing exam
preparatory course is arduous and
lengthy, and the first-time pass-
rate is an absurd 5 percenL Many
Russian immigrants have retaken
it innumerable tines without suc-
cess. Dentists from the US, UK,
France and South Africa fare no
better. The moneys raised for the
examining administration from

FLAWED

Equally flawed is Mr. Oren's
long-term strategy of holding
Camp David -style negotiations
with the participation of King
Hussein, President Mubarak, and
Shimon Peres. I shudder to think
what the outcome of such a sum-
mit would be as the politically pli-
able Netanyahu faces the com-
bined pressures from all these men
to make far-reaching concessions.

Mr. Oren is wrong to think feat
tbe presence of Peres in the gov-
ernment would “greatly contribute
to Israel's ability to withstand
international pressure." It is much
more likely that Peres would be
tbe source of these pressures.

Though well-intentioned, none
of Mr. Oren's suggestions will
improve the current, or long-term,
security problems of Israel. The
reason is that the Palestinians, as a
society, have not given up their
desire to regain all of historic

IMMIGRANT DENTISTS

the thousands of desperate exam
retakes are not insubstantial.

Whilst aware that there is a
glut of dentists in Israel, 1 feel it
is still inhumanly unfair and
against natural justice to deny
even highly qualified dentists
with many years of experience
the right to practice. Why is it
that immigrant medical physi-
cians wife 14 years of experi-
ence are exempted from their
licensing exam, but not dentists.

Sir, - The late Yitzhak Rabin,
looking forward to an era of
peace wife the Palestinian
Authority, used to say that Israel
would be safer in such a time than
it ever had been- That, of course,
was a classic sample of the wrsh-
JT thinking that underlay the

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HANAN ASHRAW1

Purim outrage, that “the Israelis
are mistaken in thinking that
Palestinians are their policemen";
Rabin, among others, was mis-
taken.

But fee is wrong, of course.
Nations at peace are indeed
obligated to protect their neigh-
bors. If the PA of which Ms.
Ashrawi is an official, really
believes feai it has no obligation
to make good-faife efforts to pre-
vent terrorist attacks on women.

Palestine. Over 40 percent of
Palestinians favor terrorism
against Israel and almost 60 per-
cent have not given up feeir
demand for a “right of return.”
That is hardly a prescription for
peaceful resolution.

Finally, in an era in which the
peoples of Eastern Europe are
overthrowing tyrants. fee
Palestinians embrace Arafat. It is
instructive to note that Arafat's
opposition comes from those ele-
ments who do not consider him
radical enough. Until fee
Palestinians inculcate the notion
of a peaceful settlement and select
a leader who pursues such a poli-
cy. a peaceful resolution of tbe
conflict is impossible. Clearly, the
present time is not propitious for
such a resolution.

SHAWN PINE

Beit Yitzhak.

even wife 35 years of experience?

A self-serving paternalistic
claque of dental examiners, whose
main interest is their position, irre-
spective of the hardship and lack
of livelihood they cause, is merely
a reflection of some modem
Israeli attitudes to professionals
among immigrants and minorities.

DR. ZE'EV BEN ARYEH

children, and other coffee-shop
patrons, may release murderers
to renew their mayhem and may
put off renouncing their hate of
Israel “until Israel has a constitu-
tion,’’ it may be in for a jarring
surprise, ft may yet have cause to
look back longingly on a day
when a Jewish housing project
seemed a big problem.

STAN GOODMAN

4? ^ G

Coalition of the sane

F riday’s kilting in Tel Aviv
brought the political process
in fee region to a new low.
We look around us - at fee mas-
sacre at Naharayim, at the
Egyptian media - and ask our-
selves: Must we go on? Con we go
on?

At difficult moments like these,
there are always those who con-
demn us for our naivete.

“We told you feat there’s no one
to talk to,” they say, “feat peace
here is an impossibility, in this
generation, at any rate - maybe
forever."

Always, at moments like these,
there are those who call for stop-
ping tbe talks, as if there was no
greater way than this to punish fee
other side.

At moments like these, con-
fronted by senseless killing, by
bleeding babies, it’s bard to talk
logically, or say anything con-
structive.

All you really want to do is cry
out and punch someone, and ask:
What kind of "AUahu akbar”
wants to see a young man sent out
to commit suicide in order to kill
young women and maim babies?

We can cry, and we have to be
angry; but these are reactions, not
answers.

The answers don't tie in halting
fee process, because that would
only signify fee cessation of hope,
and punish ourselves. And it
wouldn't stop te r ror ism , which,
after all, didn't begin wife the
peace process.

The answer is quite the oppo-
site. It is precisely completion of
fee process that will deal the hard-

YOSS1 BEILIN

est blow to terror, perhaps tbe
deathblow."

We have come a long way fence
1978, when it all began at Camp
David. For my generation, who
saw Gamal Abdel Nasser, fee
Jordanian army, and Ahmed
Shukeiry as villains, fee Israeli
flag in embassies in Cairo and
Am man and an agreement with

Instead of slowing
down the pace of
negotiations, we
should speed It up

the PLO are realities feat can
scarcely be believed.

WE have come a long way from
being internationally isolated,
from being hated, from relying
solely on American charity. Today
we have ties wife most countries
in fee world, and wife deniza-
tions in the region. The economic
boycott has largely been lifted.

But we are in mid-process, and
things are very fragile. And even
once we have a comprehensive
peace wife all tbe Arab states;
thing s will r emain fr agil e- •
Long-standing hostility doesn’t
disappear wife the signing of a
document It could take decades
for peace to penetrate people's
hearts. And fee beginning is diffi-
cult It's crucial, fateful.

It would be so easy to slide
backwards, to revert to our former
state of isolation, of being
removed from fee world, of lean-
ing on fee US, of sinking into self-
righteousness, of tearing np UN
resolutions, and being forced to
fight a war every 10 years or so,
sacrificing fee best of our young.

This we must not do.

So we will grit our teeth, bury
our dead, heal our wounded, and
demand feat fee Palestinian
Authority put up a determined
struggle against the terrorists of
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

We most recognize that no one
has a miracle core for blind terror,
and we must speed up the talks
toward a final settlement between
us and the Palestinians.

That settlement is attainable if
both sides are willing to arrive at
it And both know tbe format

Its big advantage will be deter-
mining fee bonier between us and
fee Palestinians; fee finality of it
will do much to reduce the incen-
tive to violence of extremists on
both sides.

Instead, therefore, of severing
contact, we should intensify it
Instead of slowing down fee nego-
tiations, we should speed them up.

Tenor, fanaticism and dulling of
fee senses must not be allowed to
win out this is fee time for a
coalition of fee sane to talk to each
other and come up wife ways to
live a better life in this hate-filled
and blood-saturated part of fee
worid.

The writer is a contender for the
Labor party leadership.

Yes, aren’t dreams lovely?

w

icre’s peace?

Kiiyat Tivon.

A Jordanian soldier mows
down seven Israeli children on a
school outing. True, every society,
including Israel, has its lone mad-
men. But there seem to be a lot of
"lone madmen" over there in
Jordan.

A squadron of police has to
Shield fee house of fee killer’s rel-
atives from throngs of exhilarated
admirers. The entire parliamen-
tary opposition expresses warm
support for the deed of mass child
murder.

A suicide bomber blows up a
cafe in Tel Aviv, killing and injur-
ing civilians. News of the event is
received wife wild enthusiasm by
thousands in rallies at Khan Yunis
and Nablus. Riots in Hebron
intensify, amid chants of praise
for the bomber's organization,
Hamas .

Against this background, do tbe
Israeli supporters of “peace" con-
tinue pushing fee same old line?
Remarkably, they do.

Yossi Beilin, architect of Oslo
and a Labor contestant for prime
minister, writes on this page that
“it is precisely completion of tbe
process feat will deal fee hardest
blow to terror, perhaps the death
blow."

In other words: There haven't
been enough concessions. Once
we give the Palestinians enough
land and power, fee terror and
military apparatus that they're
building by the day will turn into
a softball club.

Zionism is a movement to
reconstitute the Jewish people in
Zion, the Land of Israel, nor in
Switzerland, Belgium, or Ohio.
But this stretch of land that is the
only true Jewish home happens
also to be surrounded by back-
ward. chauvinist dictatorships to
whom a non-Moslem state in their
midst is an existential affront

For Zionism to work, we have to
have our feet on the ground of
Zion, and to be able to look clear-
ly at the Middle Eastern reality
around us. We need to see that the
landscape is a harsh and stony
one.

This is not a counsel of despair.
Clear-sightedness includes dis-
cerning Arab moderation when it
is shown by leaders like Anwar
Sadat and King Hussein, and deal-
ing with it profitably, even if the
moderation stems from expedien-
cy rather than a genuine desire for
accommodation.

P, DAVID HORMK

But it also means realizing that
- unpalatable though it may be -
all possible evidence points to an
abiding hatred of Israel among
large parts of our neighbors’ elite
and populace, including fee
Palestinian Authority, and to then-
belief feat fee worst barbaric acts
against Israelis are not only justi-
fied, but admirable.

IN recent years, a pan of the

But we live In a
harsh and hostile
region, and we’d be
better off facing it

Israeli population that is the least
rooted in Jewish tradition and in
Zion, and fee most desirous of
aping American and European
way of life, has become danger-
ously disconnected from this real-
ity.

It is one thing to want to live by
American and European values;
quite another to believe one can
remake fee Middle East to suit
them.

The previews government- was
largely composed of, and support-
ed by. Israelis wife this mind-set,
and it performed a curious psy-
chological trick. It decided that
fee locus of irrationality and bru-
tality was its Jewish opposition,
whereas the Arabs were reason-
able people who just had a few
grievances.

The Rabin-Peres government
did not stop at projecting this sup-
posed Arab reasonableness onto
two of the worst Arab killers and
torturers. Yasser Arafat and Hafez
Assad - hence fee Oslo agreement
wife the Palestinians and the talks
wife the Syrians - seeking fer-
vently to transfer land to feeir
control.

Today, rationally speaking, not a
single loophole or excuse is left
for those who claim that fee PA is
peace-oriented. The chief of staff
and head of military intelligence
have confirmed it:

Arafat has encouraged Hamas
terror; he has stopped doing any-
thing to thwart it; and his own
security chief, Jibril Rajoub, orga-
nized fee riots in Hebron.

Anyone who still calls this a
peace process is living in fury-

land. Living in Zion can never be
easy, but we make it much harder
by persuading ourselves feat our
neighbors can be bribed out of
their animosity toward us.

Hie present government was
elected because most Israelis per-
ceived it as more Zionist - both
move rooted in Zion and more
realistic - than die previous one. It
has shown more realism, but not
much resolve in acting on iL

Therefore, the government's
declaration feat farther dealing
with tbe Palestinians will depend
on feeir really cracking down on
terror roust be regarded with skep-
ticism, until proved.

It takes great resolve to cope
wife tbe problems we face. But if
we want to live in Zion, it helps if
we love it If we merely regard fee
region as a war zone and try to
turn it into a Western Europe, we
only make it more unstable and
more violent

If, however, we see Oslo for
what it is - an inevitable collision
coarse - we might be able to plan
a forward strategy rooted in real-
ism and good sense.

The author is a Jerusalem
writer and translator.

POSTSCRIPT ■

COURTNEY BESWICK couldn’t
see bis assailant, but fee blind man
used his martial aits training to
flip the attacker over his shoulder
and place him in a wrestling hold.
Tbe would-be robber suffered a
neck injury and died.

Philadelphia police say chaiges
probably won’t be filed because
Beswick acted in self defense.
Neighbors say fee dead man had
bullied Beswick, 28 and blind
since birth.

“Courtney said he asked fee guy
to leave him alone more than
once," a neighbor said. “He told
fee guy that he wasn’t giving him
his money, but the man kept both-
ering him."

The thief, Anthony Ervin,- had
been arrested eight times in the .
last nine years on assorted rob-
bery, weapons and assault charges.

Ervin kept fighting after
Beswick threw him over his shoul-
der, so be put him in a wrestling
bold.

“Beswick's not a killer,” the
neighbor said. Tie and his mother
told me they even said a prayer for
fee guy."

Fit for

the job

A- DAVID MARKS

I n fee latest development in fee
controversy over whether
senior civil servants should
submit to lie-detector tests, the
High Court has given new
Attorney-General Elyakim
Rubinstein 10 days to declare
either feat be is ready to take the
lie-detector test, or, if he isn’t, to
suspend its use altogether in the
civfl service.

The state comptroller recently
came out in favor of tbe poly-
graph test, applied together wife
other measures, for officials
exposed to classified material- To
my mind, this was misguided.

The absurd fact in this case is
that polygraph results have been
shown to be truest when those
being tested are unsophisticated
individuals who don't know how
fee test works, and cannot “fool”
iL Clearly we are noi talking
about such people here.

The polygraph test itself is a
relatively crude tool, undermin-
ing fee candidate's established
competence, his earned reputa-
tion for high integrity, and the
prestige already conferred on
turn, making all of these sub-
servient to the test’s results.

The perceived need to submit
senior appointees to such testing
seems to be saying, chillingly,
feat our society lacks faith in
other time-honored and more reli-
able methods of determining a
candidate's suitability for a given
position - such as, for example,
having him appear before one or
more truly distinguished commit-
tees.

If, after all, we cannot manage
to mist a person who is a valued
“known quantity," what does this
say about our wider society?
Have mistrust and dishonesty
become fee norm? And if they

The truth about
lie-detectors

have, can such a flawed society
be expected to produce persons
of high integrity in the first
place?

Applying fee lie detector test to
public servants prior to their
assumption of office is tanta-
mount to suspecting them wrong-
doing. In other words, a success-
ful tesi result will “clear” their
good name, ridiculous as it
sounds.

Reputed to be "very accurate,”
fee lie-detector is not infallible’
Indeed, results depend very
largely on the skill of fee person
who interprets them. This means
that, whatever other accompa-
nying examinations there may
be, a candidate could emerge
with an undeserved stain on his
character.

Whatever happened to the
notion feat a person is presumed
innocent until proven guilty?

There are other potential prob-
lems with administering lie-
detector tests to individuals who
don’t fit fee norm - which may
include those of outstanding abil-
ity, who, by definition, are “dif-
ferent”

In the most positive sense,
such persons axe in some ways
“abnormal.” Their level of intel-
lectual honesty will probably be
considerably higher than oth-
ers’; certainly it will be more
complex.

This could cause test respons-
es to be different than anticipat-
ed. And, as noted, where lie-
detector results are concerned,
interpretation is all, or nearly all.
Suppose the (often anonymous;
tester lacks fee skill to interpret
correctly what he sees? What
channels of appeal are there
afterwards?

IF polygraph testing is mandatory
for senior civil service posts, why
stop there? What about lie-detec-
tor tests for would-be MKs? Does
anyone think their integrity Is
beyond doubt?

If ail those wanting to run for
tbe Knesset were compelled to
take a lie-detector, test to certify
them as “kosher,” the Israeli voter
might be spared considerable
anguish, since many candidates
might decide to play safe and
weed themselves out before they
start. And the caliber of our polit-
ical establishment might rise sub-
stantially.

And .while ; we’re at it, what
about our Palestinian partners for
peace? Could there be a better
confidence-building measure, one
more designed to promote mutual
mist, than polygraphs all round?

If the attorney-general ultimate-
ly decides, or feels he has now
been compelled, to subnut him-
self to a lie-detector test to prove
he is the man for fee job, let’s not
restrict the test to high-ups in the
civil service.

Let's institute polygraphs as a
feature of every job where trust is
a factor,, with annual “checkups”
to prevenrbacksliding. -

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ment consultant.

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GRAPEVINE

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friend Foreign Minuter David Levy. {Swm FOT g,

Appel of his eye

By GREER FAY CA5HMAN

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P prim has always been a good
reason for -a party, but Likud
activist, building contractor
and businessman David Appel had
an additional cause for celebration
—his acquittal at the end of a seven-
year trial on charges of theft and
fraud.

Among the thousand-plus merry-
makers at Tel Aviv’s (ran Oranim
on Saturday night was Shas MX
Ary eh Deri, whose own drawn-out
trial is still in progress. Foreign
Minister David Levy, Interior
Minister. EU Snissa, Knesset
Speaker Dan Ttehon, Likud MKs
Sbaul Amor; Ruby RrvEn and
Silvan Shalom, former govern-
ment ministers Sarah Doron and
Yoram Aridor, numerous mem-
bers of die legal fraternity, includ-
ing Bar Association
chairman Dror Hoter-
Yishai and Constitution
advocate Uriel

Reichman, and celebri-
ty model Sapir
Kaufman with her bus-
hand Yoav Papushado.

Also present was Ori
Oren, Israel’s former
consul in Los Angeles,
who was passing
through en route to
South Africa where he
will take up the post of Joan C
ambassador.

military choice in the Boofc-of-the-
Month Club in the US and the
History Book Club in Britain. Yet
another laurel leaf is on the way.
Another Herzog book, 77te War of
Atonement, which was a best-seller
when it was fust published 23
years ago, will also be republished
within the next few months.

ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi
Yisrael Meir Lau - criticized by
Ha’aretz this week for accepting
money for officiating at weddings -
- hinted that some of these tokens
of appreciation find their way to
charitable enterprises.

His elder brother. NaftaB La vie,
who has often acred as the interme-
diary bringing needy causes to the
chief rabbi's attention, is more spe-
cific. He says he knows of at least a
hundred cases in which Lau made
funds available to eco-
nomically deprived
young couples so that
they could have a wed-
ding reception and buy
the basics for their first
home. Lau was also one
of the people who
helped finance the good
deeds .of die late
Simcha HoJcberg on
behalf of disabled sol-
diers.

Joan Collins

CUPPA)

, , ALTHOUGH HIS fondness for

licxzed, MK Benny Begin still
arouses curiosity when he's seen
bearding or alighting from a bus.
He just didn't develop a taste for
cars during his brief stint as science
minister;

ISRAEL’S SIXTH president
Chann Herzog, whose most recent
book Living History has already
entered its third printing in die US,
while Battles of the Bible, a mili-
tary history book be wrote together
with Prof. Mordecbai Gichon of
Tel Aviv University, has been
republished by Greenhill Books.
The latter has been selected as the

Urns the DATE which

cuppa) author Jackie Collins
chose for the launch of
her .net book was not entirely
acceptable to her sister, actress
Joan Collins, whose artist son
Sasha Newly was holding an exhi-
bition on the same night When
Joan called Jackie to change the
date for her affair, Jackie absolute-
ly refused. Her attitude may have
been influenced by the tide of her
book - Vendetta.

LITERALLY FOLLOWING suit
is Raqnel Welch who will take
over from JuBe Andrews in the
Broadway smash hit Victor
Victoria. Andrews is due to quit the
show in July, at which time Welch
will step into both her suit and her
shoes.

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Feminists advance by the Book

A new role for
Orthodox
women is being
forged, but
rabbinic
decisions are
not keeping
pace, Judy
Weil reports

M ore than two decades
after Conservative and
Reform feminists began
transforming their Judaism,
Orthodox women from around the
world met last month to assess the
strides they had made in their own
quiet revolution and to chart their
friture.

The time was ripe for change."
says Blu Greenberg, chairwoman
of the International Conference on
Feminism and Orthodoxy. “By the
turnout alone, which far surpassed
our expectations, we understand
that we tapped in to a great need.

"There were many women,
many rabbis and many groups
working on these issues in isola-
tion. It was a very empowering
experience for all of us to come
together.”

Conference participants will
assess what the event accom-
plished at a panel discussion on
Monday at Jerusalem's Parties
Institute of Jewish Studies.

Orthodox feminism may sound
tike as oxymoron, but the issues it
addresses are of tremendous
.importance, from changing roles
in the community to resolving the
plight of agunot (women unable to
obtain divorces).

The term still engenders discom-
fort among some women, includ-
ing conference organizers. “Some
of the organizers were hesitant to
use 'feminism' in the title for fear
that it would raise a red flag,”
Greenberg said after the confer-
ence. “But others among us said:
'If we can’t use “feminism” in the
title, then we're still at square one.
Why bother to organize a confer-
ence?”'

The title did not deter women
from attending; about 1 ,000 —
more, than double the number
anticipated -came from Israel, the
US, Canada, England, the
Netherlands, South Africa and
Australia

The most significant changes
have been in the last 15 years,
among them women's prayer
groups, which now have thou-
sands of members worldwide. A
Queens, New York, rabbinical
council voted in January to pro-

It

hibii women’s prayer groups there
in response to a local family’s
desire to mark their daughter's bat
mitzva with a Torah reading in
such a group.

The family ignored the council’s
ruling, citing the legitimation
other" Orthodox rabbis have given
women's prayer.

Orthodox rabbis in basic sympa-
thy with the women's goats
attended as conferees or speakers.
Among them were activist Rabbi
Avi Weiss, whom the prayer
movement consults on points of
Halacha. and Stem College pro-
fessor Rabbi Saul Berman, head of
Edah, a modem- Orthodox think
tank which was a sponsor of the
conference. They argued, howev-
er, that women's prayer groups
should not fight now for the right
to recite those prayers long
restricted to a mmyan of men.

In contrast. Rabbi Irving
Greenberg - known for his advo-
cacy of pluralism and dialogue
with the non -Orthodox move-
ments - suggested that with a new
generation of poskim, women's
prayer groups might be recognized
as true liturgical communities with
the right to recite their prayers as a
quorum.

BETTER EDUCATION is anoth-
er area of change. Since Talmud
study was introduced for girts in ■
the 1970s, women's yeshivot have
proliferated. among them
Jerusalem's Midreshet

Lindenbaum and Matan.

Alice Shalvi, head of the Israel
Women's Network, said one of the
more exciting aspects of die con-
ference was how many “extremely
knowledgeable women" attended,
running the learning sessions.

The only point of disagreement
on women’s learning was that it
was not emphasized enough at the
conference. T didn't come for the
feminism issue.” Debbie Kiam,
director of Boston's Maayan
Institute, said. “I came for the
learning, and if learning makes me
a feminist, then I guess 1 am one.”

But better education may be a
dead end for women without the

Orthodox
feminism may
sound like an

oxymoron.

chance to serve in leadership
roles, tike rabbi or posek (halacbic
arbiter).

“Yet clearly ” Shalvi says,
“there are now women teachers,
experts, who are capable of being
poskot. That is important for
Orthodox women to see, that rab-
bis are equaled, if not often out-
done by women.”

When Blu Greenberg repeated
her. prediction that there would
soon be Orthodox women rabbis.
Rabbi David Silber of Drisha, a
.women's yesbiva in New.- York,
suggested that until Orthodoxy
accepts women in this role, the
role of the rabbi should be cre-
atively redefined to allow women
to hold other positions of authori-
ty io the religious community.
Other rabbis urged caution to
avoid hurting other gains.

Shalvi took exception: To be
told not to go too for, to hear it
from so-called moderates like Avi

(Line Dance 1 by San Harwin)

Weiss - who have been the source
Of hope for this movement - is
contradictory, disturbing and
downright offensive.”

ONE PARTICIPANT had decided
not to waiL Ha viva Ner-David,
studying at Jerusalem’s Shalom
Hartman Institute, created a storm
recently when she announced her
plans ro seek ordination from an
Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem. She
has already taken upon herself the
commandments of wearing lallit,
tefillin and iziziL

“I wish her much success,”
says Leah Sbakdiel, whose peti-
tion to the High Court of Justice
won her a seat on the Yeroham
Religious Council in 1986, and
led to other women being
appointed to councils nation-
wide. “Anyone who is the first
has to have a hard time.” It rook
four years for Shakdiel to take
the seat after her nomination.

Other women sidestepped the
question or said her plans would
not help their cause.

Ner-David, who on Monday will
be on the panel discussing the con-
ference, is undaunted.

“Some of the women at the con-
ference were skeptical, but then
they didn’t seem to want to be
doing it themselves. T want to be
..and am a. spiritually, religious-
guide for people. If women are
doing the same studying as men,
then I’m going to jump at the
chance and I hope other women
will join me. Someone has to want
tobefirsL”

Women have other options as
well.

The Drisha Institute in New
York and Nishmat in Jerusalem
offer programs that qualify

women as teachers in spectf
areas of Halacha, such as «teljg«
of family punty. Bar-Dan

University sn* 0hr

Institute's Toshiya progmnj*m
anti certify women as advocates
for Israel’s religious courts.
recent years, women have nsfij i »
increasingly important leadersmp
positions in Orthodox synagogues,
including the once maJe-do®mai-
ed office of president. •

A handful of rabbis attended a
1986 conference in Israel on
women in Jewish law. The New
York conference, howevw, attract-
ed over 30 Orthodox rabbis; tne
organizers said they realized that
rabbis had to be their partners m
effecting change. . ,

Shakdiel argued, however mat
rabbis had too much of a foram
and that the women were not
prominent enough at the 1986
conference.

RABBIS WERE also criticized
over the issue of agunoL Naomi
K/ass, a former aguna, spoke of
her ex-husband’s extortion and
harassmenL

She also recounted the story of
another aguna who yielded to the
rabbinical court’s pressure to pay
her husband $120,000 to release
her. At the Jewish divorce ceremo-
ny, however, he handed it .over to
one of his confederates who then
took off with the money. Sbe
remains married against her will to
this day.

Special rabbinical courts have
been set up in the US and Israel to
deal solely with the issue of
agunot.

“Although we appreciate these
efforts on behalf of agunot of
absentee husbands,” Esther Sivan
of the Israel Women's Network
says, “this [Israeli] court still does
not answer the question of thou-
sands of agunot chained by recal-
citrant husbands.”

Solving die problem may just be
a question of methodology, says
Rabbi Berman.

“Some aguna organizations
believe that a total -revocation of
Torah marriage and divorce is in
order, but the system is not subject
to revocation. By using the small-
er tools of Halacha, we don’t have
to throw out the baby with the
bathwater."

Rabbi Dr. Noam Zohar, senior
lecturer in philosophy at Bar-Ilan
University, has praise for the
. advances made^but T don’t think
compromises and patchwork will
work. Rather, there's a system-
wide problem of equality. We have
to be committed to change across
the board.”

Blu Greenberg’s now famous
aphorism, “Where there's a rab-
binic will, there's a halachic way,”
was widely quoted in the sessions.
Yet the rabbinic will apparently is
lagging far behind these women.

PARENTING

Girls’ soccer about to kick off in Israel

By RUTH MASON

W e made aliya last year from
North America with three girls,
ages six, nine and 10.

Each of them played soccer on an orga-
nized team that was part of a league that in
turn was part of the national American
Youth Soccer Organization. My girls love
playing soccer and we were sure that in
Israel , where soccer is the national sport,
we would have no trouble finding a team
for them.

Imagine our daughters * disappointment

when all our efforts fidled. Why is there no
girts * soccer in Israel ?

Shlomit Toor-Nir, director. Unit for the
Advancement of Women in Sports of the
Sports Authority of the Ministry of
Education, Culture and Sport, says:

You’ve come to Israel at the right tine!
We are a very traditional, conservative soci-
ety. Until now. soccer was considered a
boys’ sport, something that just wasn't for
girts. Now there is an awakening on the pan
of girts and also -on the part of FISA, the
International Football Association (soccct is
known as football in Israel). They recently

sent an announcement to all national mem-
ber organizations, inducting Israel, asking
diem to start leagues for women. -
My feeling is that we should start with
girts and then move on to women. The
Ministry of Education has begun organizing
a base for this in schools and community
centers throughout the country. We have
asked them to organize kat-regel games for
girls. This is like soccer, but it’s played
indoors and with five or seven instead of H
players. The idea is that we will find those
who excel and recruit them onto municipal
teams of girls’ soccer. Haifa and its suburbs

already have 15 girls* kat regel groups
which will play in a league, beginning soon.

We are simultaneously crying to build a
national girts* team within the national foot-
ball organization. Our efforts in this area are
just beginning.

Sports in Israel is stiU very male-dominat-
ed. Of those involved in competitive sports,
only 22% are women as compared with a
country like Norway, where women's par-
ticipation is up to 40 percent

Soccer is thought of as an extremely male
sport If we can change this image, we’ll
have taken a big step forward.

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ginning nev; Monday, union official Masaya Tamada said.
The work stoppage will affect the country's six largest ports,
riuJing those at Yokohama. Kobe and Osaka, as well as about
: ;.:r Japan’.* ,J 6 ports nationwide, Tamada said. AP

Row over spin-off bonuses
for Bank Leumi chiefs

FM Levy demands legislation forbidding
public companies from granting excessive bonuses

By BAWD HARRS
and GAUTUHQS BECK

Bank Leumi chairman Eitan
Raff and general manager Galia
Maor should refuse to accept the
combined N1S 1 2 million bonuses
promised diem earlier this month
for the spin-off deals they led
involving the Africa Israel holding
company, MKs representing a
broad political spectrum said yes-
terday.

Foreign Minister David Levy
said he will request in the next
cabinet meeting that legislation be
drafted to forbid public companies
from granting excessive bonuses.

The bemuses to Raff and Maor
are unacceptable, according to
Knesset Finance Committee chair-
man Avraham Ravitz (United
Torah Judaism).

Former finance minister
Avraham Shohat, head of the
Labor faction in the committee,
said that as rational and intelligent
people the two should refuse to
accept die money.

“Bonuses should only be paid
for a prolonged period of success,
not on the basis of one deal,” said
Silvan Shalom (Likud). “Whether
the^ should refuse to accept the
money is for the company board to
decide.

Support for the payment came
from Zvi Hendel (NRP), who
argued the two were responsible
for the sale, which brought the
company NIS 455m. “A N1S
600,000 bonus is not that great a
percentage.”

Bank Leumi yesterday justified
the high bonuses allocated to its
senior management, emphasizing
that the transaction will bring in
high tax returns and new foreign
money into the economy.

“The sale was completed at the
maximum price, reaping the high-
est profit to the government,
which represents the shareholders.
It is one of the largest transactions
ever concluded.”

Hie bank's general shareholders
meeting is convening on April 1 to
approve the bonuses. Bank Leumi

does not expect any objections.

The major portion of the Africa-
Israel sale was that of Migdal
Insurance to Italian-based
Assicurazioni Generali, one of
Europe’s largest insurers, in a deal
worth more than NIS 300m.

That deal is still shrouded in
controversy, as more than 50 fam-
ilies are embroiled in a legal battle
with Generali to be paid out on life
and other insurance policies of
Holocaust victims.

With Generali refusing to pay,
Ravitz yesterday demanded the
bank set up a fund for the families,
claiming the profits from the deal
should at least in part go their way.

The Generali issue is expected
to be discussed by the committee
early next month, but Finance
Minister Dan Meridor is refusing
to appear, despite Ravitz's request.
According to the minister, he has
no authority to act in the matter,
with the sole government power
belonging to Insurance
Commissioner Doron Sborer.
However, Shorer also maintains

he has no legal grounds to inter-
vene. Meridor said the law also
prevents him from commenting on
die bonuses.

Last week the Bank of Israel
decided Raff could not be appoint-
ed to head Generali in Israel,
while still running a state firm.

MKs Michael Kleiner (Likud-
Gesher), Avraham Herschson
(Likud) and Nissim Dahan (Shas)
have said they will vote against
die Treasury in the finance com-
mittee until something is done to
help the families.

Kleiner said yesterday he
intends looking into the possibility
that Raff rushed the Generali deal
through in order make personal
financial gain.

“At first I didn’t realize why he
[Raff] was so quiet about the
whole deal, despite being pan of
an organization originally set up
by the Jewish Agency," said
Kleiner. “Now it’s clear that stand-
ing behind this shady deal is
someone who expects to gain a fat
bonus.”

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wins $58 million

contract with BT

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■r.L • felecvi'ii Ltl of Petah Tikva
i ts received a S5S million, three-
vear contract to supply telecommu-
aliens equipment to British

•c.'ecom.

According to the terms of the
..greemenL ECI will supply BT with
CACSC systems.
i>-: system allows telecom
. ;, : er y r.j double the number of

• -. per telephone line by convert-
, j ;• i.jn.Je analog line into twodig-

• •: v.nile leaving the current

: i: : f-.i«;rjcnjre in place,

r*. ! competed with several

: . ; ■' ", i i-.un arc ns companies for

: J:r which represents one of

targes* deals with BT.

'/.’re of the key elements of this
■.■T.'raci is that it uives us a multi-

year contract with a major carrier,”
said Doron Inbar, the company’s
chief financial officer.

The firm is British Tblecom’s sole
supplier of HDSL equipment, which
works on a different part of the tele-
phone line than the DACS-2, but
also serves to increase die number of
users that can be saved through a
pair of existing copper-wire tele-
phone lines.

ECI, which is expanding its mar-
keting efforts in die Far East, is cur-
rently working on a deal to supply
$45 m. worth of networking equip-
ment to Chinese telecom operator Ji
Tong.

Based in Petah Tikva, ECI manu-
factures digital telecommunications
equipment for foe transmission infra-
structure of domestic and internation-
al telecommunications networks.

Boeing tends $685 million deal with Air China

A cyclist glances at an Air China advertisement featuring a Boeing 747 in Beijing yesterday. Boeing has landed a $685 million
contract with Air China to buy five 777-200 jetliners in an indication that business relations have recovered since a year ago,
when Beijing turned to a European rival for its aircraft purchases. iHcmcd

israelelectric rrun

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COMPANY RESULTS

The Israel Electric Corporation wishes to
purchase goods/services, as detailed below:

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Bezeq earns record NIS 658m.

; tender |

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| YS7-5SS-54C=9j

Page Party System for the Rotenberg Power Station

NIS 936

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:j CONDITIONS APPLYING TO THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS;

’! A. Participation in a tender is also subject to respecting the preliminary conditions, detailed in the
I Tender Regulations 1 993, Para. 6(a) 1 , 2, 3 (i.e. registration as required by law, compliance with
mandatory specifications, and the holding of the permits required by law for businesses).

3. if a bidder fails to submit a particular document, permit or license, or any other material required
by the preliminary conditions, the Electric Corporation may allow the Udder to submit the necessary
;! document within a specific period of time as set by the Corporation.

The tender documents are available from the Import Department 11 Sderot Pal-Yam, Haifa,
Sunday to Thursday, between 9 a.
oavment of the cost (non-retumabfej
oarik. Payment slips and further irm
5530/197. The tender documents may be perused before they are purchased on Sunday to
Thursday, 9 a.m. - 12 noon, at the offices of the Import Department at the above address.

Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope and must be placed in Danders Bax. No. 2 in the Pal-
Yam building, Haifa (address as above), by the last date for submitting bids as stated above.

No undertaking is given to accept the lowest or any bid.

In appropriate cases, the Electric Corporation will give preference to suppliers. In

V Produced Goods, and Obligation

NOTE. ... . . _

accordance with the Tenders Regulations (Preference for Locally
lo Extend Commercial Cooperation).

The offices of the Israel Electric Corporation will be dosed on the following dates:

Pessah: April 24 - April 28
Yom Hazikaran: May 11
Yoro Hs'alzma'ut: May 12
Shavuot: June 10-11

By JUDY 9EGEL
and JENNIFER FRIEDUH

Bezeq earned a record NIS
658.7 million in net income last
year, a 5.2% increase over 1995.

The telecommunications compa-
ny's figures were released yester-
day and approved in financial
statements by tbe Bezeq board of
directors.

Net income during the fourth
quarter rose to NIS 194.5m. from
NIS 152.2m. during the previous
quarter and NIS 1 76m. in the same
period last year.

Annual revenues totalled NIS
8.287 billion, an increase of 4.7%
over 1995.

Bezeq chairman Gurion Meltzer
and acting director-general Avi
Hochraan told the board that a
substantial chunk of revenue
growth was due to increased vol-
ume of activity in cellular coramu-

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nications, an increase in the instal-
lation of regular phone lines and
the sale of peripheral equipment.

All components of revenue, they
said, were harmed by the erosion
of telecommunications rates due
to inflation.

Yet the growth in die volume of
local and international calls offset
the erosion of rates and also con-
tributed to the growth in revenues.

Clal Insurance net earnings-
swelled 9S percent to NIS
119.68m. last year from NIS
60.48m. in 1995.

Fourth quarter net earnings rose
22% to NIS 26.7m. from NIS
21.9ra. in the same 1995 period.

Net return on equity on an annu-
al basis reached 28.6%. The high-
er earnings reflected an improve-
ment in all fields of activity.
Management said the annual
results were partly offset by a car-
tel fine of NTS 6.000.

Earnings from the general insur-
ance sector grew 22% to NTS
87.26m., compared with a net loss
of NIS 21.94m. in the previous
year.

The general insurance division
reported a 73% drop in fourth
quarter profit to NIS 1 .02m. from
NIS 3.08m

In die life insurance sector, prof-
its grew 28% to NIS 183.27m.
from NIS 143.1 lm. Fourth quarter
earnings increased 36% to NIS
55.59m. from NIS 40.81m.

Nexus Telecommunication
Systems Ltd. ’s net losses
decreased slightly to $5.29m.
from $6. 17m in 1995.

Revenues rose 37% to $772,000

from $565,000. Fourth-quarter net
losses were up to $1 .43m., com-
pared with $ 1.39m. in the same
period last year. Revenues rose to
$146,000 from $145,000.

Galit Lipids Beck also con-
tributed to this report.

Wednesday,

March 26, 1997

Migdal

rejects
demand
to dismiss
managers

By GALIT UPKJS BECK

The directors of Migdal
Insurance yesterday rejected
Supervisor of Insurance Doron
Shorer’s demand , to ^ f
managers recently indicted for

creating a cartel. .

The directors of Liai
Insurance are expected to decide
on the issue next week.

Migdal’s board of directors
convened yesterday at Shorer s
instruction to decide on the con-
tinued employment of the man-
agers convicted of price-fixing
and other illegal activities m
restraint of trade in 1991 and
1992.

Migdal board of directors
expressed their full confidence
in the continued employment of
Migdal Group general manager
Uzi Levi, Migdal deputy gener-
al manager Gideon Rosolio and
Hamagen deputy* general man-
ager Amichai Haran at the end
of a lengthy meeting.

But the directors did not come
to a final decision on the man-
agers' future employment with
the country’s largest insurance
group.

“They contributed and make
big contributions to the success
and prosperity of the Migdal
Group," said the board in an
official announcement- “The
board is under the opinion not to
accept the supervisor of insur-
ance’s demand...”

The Italian Generali will offi-
cially gain control of Migdal
from Bank Leumi ar the start of
April.

Shortly afterwards, on April
17, the company's general
shareholders are scheduled to
convene to appoint a new board
of directors, who will decide on
the managers* future employ-
ment.

“It is not appropriate for the
existing board to make such a
significant long-term decision
on an issue which must be dis-
cussed by the new board,” the
board of directors said.

Generali is expected to sup-
port Levi’s continued employ-
ment, sources close to the com-
pany said.

They said Generali acquired
Migdal with Levi, who has more
than 50 years of experience in
the sector.

The future employment of Clal
Insurance general manager
Rimon Ben-Shaul will be decid-
ed at a board of directors meet-
ing only after the board exam-
ines the legal opinions on the
issue in more detail, a Clal offi-
cial announced at the end of a
three-hour directors meeting at
which Shorer's demand was dis-
cussed.

“The directors want to exam-
ine the legal opinions in more
detail; there are many aspects
that must be considered,” a Clal
spokesman said.

Shorer could not be reached
for comment.

Published reports said he
intends to use his power to sus-
pend the general managers and
their deputies for three months
on the basis that they are no
longer credible and suitable for
the positions.

The supervisor of insurance .
has the authority to . suspend
managers under section 68 of
the ^ Insurance Business
Superintendence Law.

Patah (foreign currency deposit rates) (11.9^0)

3 "PSS® « months

Starting (£100,000) 3^75 |*oSS

German mart? (DM 200,000) 1.025 1625

Swiss franc (SF 200,000) 0.625 07 s n

Yen (IDmWonyan) — _

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French franc
Japanese yen <10t»
Dutch florin
Swiss franc
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Norwegian krone
Danish krone

Finnish merit
Canadian daHar
Australian doOer

S. African rand

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Ej^pflan pound

Irish punt

Spanish peseta (100)

(Hatas vary higher or lower than Indicated acoortflng to depoatl)
Shekel Foreign Exchange Rates* (2&3£7)
CHECKS AND
TRANSFERS
Sell
3.6822
3.3879
2.0101
5.4759
05960
2.7460
1.7878
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TA SB ROUNDUP

Indexes return to rises

Mishtanim
243.93 A 0.66%

By FEUCE MAftJUg

Stock indexes rose yesterday as
cooccm about tension with the
Palestinians eased, analysts said.

“Investors felt today that the
security situation didn’t merit
declines,*' said Shachsr GazzL a

Representative

us Oollar Alts 33800 - 0.18%

Srertng AUS5-4388 +1.19%

Mark MS 1.9959 + 0.12%

NEW YORK MARKET INDEXES

DJindurcnraa

DJ Transport

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CU Carp

NYSE toman

NYSETJarspcn

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SSP Spot mdex

Last

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41564

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78983

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OTHER MARKET INDEXES

la a

FTSElOO 42707

rmya Mfeka 16439.6

Sngrocre a+snaro «tex 5318

Horn Kong Hang Seng nte -126325
radua— 204.16

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US COMMODITIES

last Change

Cocci (May] (CEO 1445 *17

OAa (May) ICEC) 1798 tl&4

Sugar nail (May) (CEO 1088 -006

WheratW] ICSOT) 5655 *5

Soytnan |JU) (CBOT) 843.75 *11

Orange ukx (MwyXCEO *155 -US

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LONDON COMMODITIES

test Change

Cocoa (May) ILCE] 1016 *11

Coflee (May) CLCE) 1567 *26

atm mte oitMayHIPH) 1954 -4

SPOT MARKET METALS (US)

Gold spot.
Swr spat.

test Change

34654 -151

513 -005

NEW YORK METAL FUTURES

i pm Change

Gold (Apr). . ... 3482 -17

StorGfay) 512 -0077

PlafeMn (Apr) 3755 -3

Ptatafrmprai) 1468 -285

H^vgodB copper (May) 1.129 *00195

LONDON METAL FIXES

test Change

Gold AM ta 3509 *025

Gold PM fix 3498 -08

Srarto 5f68 *4

Mondinpararabaaessgrab contract exp. da»
(SPMtnralto bfings are ttwn epr mma t ra y
2350 Isnal due. Al others are ctosisg qratesj

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The Maof Index of 25 issues
rose 0.85 percent to 252.47 and
the Mishtanim Index of 100 issues
rose 0.66% to 243.93. The general
bond index rose 0.12%.

Of 961 shares trading across the
exchange, six shares rose for
every five that fell. NIS 79.7 mil-
lion worth of shares changed
hands. NIS 8.3m. above Monday's

Maof
252.47 A 0.85%

level and about 20% below this
month's average so far- T _,
Banking shares rose, ijraj 1 -.
Discount Bank, Israel’s
largest bank, rose 0.75%:
on Monday said net income m-rao
fourth quarter fell 82% to NlS
12.7m., which was bette^than-
expecied. .

Bank Hapoaiim, die country s
largest bank, went up 3.25% and
Bank Leu mi Le'Israel rose 1%.

(Bloomberg)

WORLD MARKET ROUNDUP

European markets
ride out fears over
rise in US rates

LONDON (Reuter) - European
stocks and bonds rallied strongly
yesterday as investors refused to
be spooked by the prospect of the
first US interest rate rise in more
than two years.

All three of Europe’s major
bourses — London, Paris and
Frankfurt - made good gains, with
London breaking a six-day losing
streak.

By the time European markets
closed. Wall Street was up around
20 points, building on Monday’s
100.46 point gain in volatile trad-
ing.

On the foreign exchange market
the dollar gained ground above
1.69 marks and eyed 124 yen as
dealers awaited the outcome of a
policy-making meeting of the U.S.
Federal Reserve.

“The problem for the dollar is'
that you never know whether it
will take its lead from rates or
asset markets” said David
Bloom, currency strategist at
HSBC Markets in London.

WALL STREET REPORT

German government bonds also
firmed with British bonds or gilts,
taking their cue from a rally in US
bonds.

The US long bond was up about
8/32 to yield 6.90 percent as
European markets closed.

London blue chips, which fell
4.7% during the six sessions up
until Monday, rebounded more
than 1% over the day.

The benchmark FTSE 100 index
finished. 55.9 points higher at
4,270.7, just below the day’s best
levels. The previous six sessions
had taken 209 points off the index.

Germany’s banking sector
helped the blue chip DAX-30
index close floor trade just short of
its high of the day with a 273
point gain to 3349.14. In later
screen-based trade the IBIS DAX
index climbed more than 2%.

After flirting with a return below
the key 2,600 level, French shares
rose with the rest of Europe,
although the strength of the rally
surprised some traders.

Dow declines on
interest rate nerves

NEW YORK (Reuter) -
Blue-chip stocks closed lower
yesterday as Wall Street react-
ed nervously to the US
Federal Reserve’s decision to
raise interest rates, a move
that could slow theeconomy
and dampen corporate profits.

Based on early and unoffi-

cial data, the Dow Jones
industrial average closed
down 29.08 points at
6,876.17. But in the broader
market, advancing issues led
declines by a small margin on
active volume of 485 million
shares on the New York Stock
Exchange.

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The Morgue. Soviet Photography from
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Agrippas, 624-6484; Balsam, Salalt e-
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tfw area, around fta dock.

Medical help tor tourists (in English)
177-022-9110

The National Poison Control Center at
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546-1111 (chBdren/Vouth 696-1113),
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Netanya 8625110, Karrmel 988-8770.
Kfar Sava 767-4555, Hadera634-
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02-651-4111, 03-546-1133 (also in
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(also in Amharic).

Rape Crisis Center (24 hours), Tel
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Moslems protest Israeli

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in brief

Good Knight for Lakers

EAST RUTHEFU^ORD (APj - Rookie Travis Knight had 1 8
points and 14 rebounds and the Los Angeles UkeraTvoided
their first three-game losing streak of the season by bearing the
New Jersey Nets 109-84 in Monday night’s only game. "

Thl^i!^ ^ °h SI |f Ce ^haquille O’Neal injured his knee.

The win moved them a hatf-game ahead of the Hciston Rockets
in the race for the third-best record in the Western Conference.

FIFA plan to widen Bosnian transfer rule

ZP ICH ~ ’ s xl to amend its rules so that players
ot all nationalities - so long as they play in the European Union
- can move on free transfers under the Bosnian regulations.

The move will bring stars such as Brazil’s Ronaldo,
Colombia's Faustino Asprilla and Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu into
line with players born in EU countries. Once the players are out
of contract, the clubs they move to no longer have to nay a trans-
fer fee. r

The rule came into existence 15 months ago after Belgian soc-
cer player Jean-Marc Bosnian successfully gained a court ruling
against his club, FC Liege, that it should not receive a transfer
fee because his contract had ended.

India’s Dalmiya to be new ICC chief

NEW DELHI (Reater) — India’s Jagmohan Dalmiya will be the
next head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a three-
year term after the retirement of Sir Clyde Walcott in June.
India's cricket board chief said yesterday.

Dalmiya played a key role in organizing the World Cup joint-
ly hosted by India. Pakistan and Sri Lanka last year. He has also
been aggressively promoting the idea of commercial sponsor-
ships for cricket and taking the game to more countries.

India were unanimously elected to provide die president until
June 2000 at a special general meeting of the ICC on Sunday.

Ran loses in Casablanca

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Marcello Craca of
Germany, defeated Eyal Ran, 6-4, 6-2 yesterday in (he first
round of the King Hassan D Open tennis tournament
In other singles action, Gilbert Schaller (4), Austria, defeated
Tamer El Sawy. Egypt 1 -6(1-2), 6-3.

KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysia
(AP) - More than 500 Moslems
burned Israeli flags and chanted
“crush Israel” yesterday to protest
against an Israeli cricket team
playing here.

The noisy two-hour demonstra-
tion was organized by the youth
wing of an Islamic party, which
demanded the government send
back the sportsmen, the first Israelis
to ever play in this Islamic nation.

The demonstrators from the
opposition Parti Agama Se-Islam
held banners that read, “Get out
Israelis, we hate you" and “Israelis
Get Lost.” and cheered their lead-
ers who delivered ami -Israeli
speeches.

Later, they marched through
downtown Kuala Lumpur and
delivered a protest letter at Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s
office.

“The ruling party and Mahathir
claim they 'are Moslems ... This is
a disgrace, letting Israelis ... into
our nation ... We will fight to get
them out,” the party deputy presi-
dent, Had! Awang, said.

“This is only a warning to get
them out. If it is not heeded by the
government we will disrupt the
games ... We will hunt the Israelis
in every nook and comer and kick
diem out,” said another leader,
Abu Bakar Chik.

About 200 riot police sat in two
trucks while about 20 other
policemen mingled among the
demonstrators, but there was no
trouble.

The Israelis played their first
match on Monday. Kenya, 157-3,
defeated Israel 154-8 by seven
wickets in the tournament of 22
non-Test playing nations.

The 2 1 -day tournament will
allow the top three participants to

Moslem fundamentalists burn an Israeli flag to protest the presence of an Israeli cricket team In Kuala Lumpur yesterday. (&*!■**>.

play in a competition for the
sport's top prize, the World Cup,
in England in 1999.

Malaysia, a staunch supporter of
the Palestinian cause, has no diplo-
matic relations with Israel, and bans

interaction between its citizens.
Malaysia, however, allowed the
cricket team, saying it wanted to
show Israel that it is possible for
multiracial and multi-religious soci-
eties to live in harmony.

“The government has given its
approval for the visit of die team
and we do not intend to revoke it,”
Mahathir said.

Last year, Malaysia allowed
select businessmen to visit Israel to

express support for improving
Israeli-Palestinian relations.

According to Reuters. Israel play
Ireland today; Singapore tomor-
row, the US on Saturday, and Gib- ;
raltar on Sunday.

Hap Petah Tikva fading away

By 0W LEWIS

Maccabi Herzliya appear to have assured them-
selves of another season in the National League after
beating Hapoel Petah Tikva 1-0 in a postponed game
held over from 1 1 days ago.

The Herzliyans came away from the Petah Tikva
municipal ground which had been waterlogged on die
original match day (March 1 5) with a win, following
a sixth-minute goal by Roman Filipchuk. Walid Bdir
was at fault as he made a defensive error to allow
Filipchuk free rein, and the Herzliya forward made
no mistake against Sbai Hess.

The Petah Tikvans are fading badly in the league^
race for a place in Europe, and while their first-round ,
performances kept them in the title' picture, their drop '
from second to third place in the standings is a sign
that they still have to gain much experience before
they are ready to challenge for the major honors.

Heizliya closed up their defense after the goal.

while Petah Tikva foiled to capitalize on several
opportunities to score. Bdir put the ball in die net on
1 1 minutes, but only after fouling Herzliya 'keeper
Shuli Gilardi. In the second half. Avi Fletcher headed
onto the crossbar and Motti Kakkon missed from a
comfortable position.

Petah Tikva, whose poor performance prompted
some supporters local! for coach Nir Levin's dismissal,
are now in third place with 45 points from 23 matches,
while Herzliya are in 12th spot with 26 points.

In a second division match held over from the same
weekend and for the the same reason, Hapoel Hadera
and Betar Tel Aviv drew 0-0.

--In other news, die national junror(ander- 1 6) side take-
on Yugoslavia in die - first leg of cbeir'ifinal qualifier for
die European championships today in Loznica. The
return leg will be held in Israel on April 16.

Tal Banin returned to action as the national squad
began its training camp for the all-important World
Cup qualifier with Luxembourg on Monday.

Lofton, Justice
swap wigwams

Liverpool keep in
touch with Utd

Gretzky leads Rangers past Penguins

NEW YORK (Reuter) - Wayne
Gretzky had a goal and an assist in
what probably was his final regu-
lar-season meeting with Mario
Lemieux as the New York Rangers
blanked the reeling Pittsburgh
Penguins 3-0 Monday.

Gretzky scored into an empty
net in the final minute of the third
period after setting up the first
goal of the game early in the first
Lemieux, bothered by persistent
back pain and still recovering
from treatment for Hodgkin's dis-
ease, has said this almost certainly
will be his final year in the NHL.

“If Mario had stayed healthy he
would have broken my records,
especially die one where I got 92
goals in one season,” said Gret-
zky. “He also was capable of get-
ting more than my 162 assists.”
Gretzky and Lemieux. the pre-

mier players of their era, feced
each other 25 times during the reg-
ular season. Gretzky's teams went
17-7-1 and he outscored Lemieux
in those games. 60 points to 38.

Gretzky in 18 seasons has

amassed 61 scoring records.
Lemieux in 12 seasons has 13
scoring records.

Lemieux said, “I am at peace
with my place in the game’s histo-
ry"

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTStN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L

x-Phiiadeiphia 41 21
x-New Jersey 39 20
Florida 33 24

N.Y. Rangers 36 30

N.Y. Islanders 25 38
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W L

T PtsGF GA
11 93 247 190
13 91 203 165
17 83 201 179
9 79 239 206
8 66 185 204
7 63 194 226
11 61 202 215

x-Buffalo

Pittsburgh

Montreal

Hartford

Ottawa

Boston

T PtsGF GA
11 87 216 182
7 75 251 245

14 68 224 253
10 64 194 225

15 63 200 212
9 57 212 266

Central Division
W

x-Oalfas 44

Detroit 34

Phoenix 35

Si Louis 31

Chicago 29

Toronto 26

Pacific Division
W

x -Colorado 45

Edmonton 34

Anaheim 31

Calgary 31

Vancouver 30

Los Angeles 26

San Jose 24

L T PtsGF GA
23 6 94 228 174

23 15 83 229 174

34 5 75 213 222

33 9 71 214 223

32 12 70 193 187

41 6 58 210 253

L T PtsGF GA
19 9 99 248 178

33 7 75 230 221

31 11 73 216 208

35 8 70 198 208

39 5 65 226 250

38 10 62 194 242

55 183 243

x - clinched playoff berth

Monday’s results: Montreal 3, Boston 1; NY Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 0;

Edmonton 5, San Jose 1; Vancouver 2, Los Angeles 2 (OT).

ATLANTA (AP) - The Braves
and Indians pulled off a major
trade today in which Atlanta sent
outfielders David Justice and
Marquis Grissom to Cleveland for
outfielder Kenny Lofton and
reliever Alan Embree.

The NL champion Braves were
looking to trade the high-priced
-Justice to free room in-their salary
structure for re-signing pitchers
Greg’Maddux and Tom Gl&vhte,
both free agents at the end of the
season. Justice, who missed nearly
all of last season with a shoulder
injury, will make $125 million over
the next two seasons.

The Indians were facing the Joss
of Lofton, one of the game’s top
leadoff hitters, at the end of this
season. The center fielder already
had told the team be didn’t want to
talk about a contract extension and
he planned to file for free agency
following the 1997 season.

“This very significant deal
brings us arguably the game’s
finest leadoff hitter in Kenny
Lofton,” Braves general manager
John Schuerholz said.

“In addition, our bullpen is
strengthened considerably by the
acquisition of hard-throwing left-
hander Alan Embree.”

Lofton. 29, gives the Braves
their best leadoff hitter since they
traded Brett Butler more than a
decade ago. He hit .317 with 14
homers, 67 RBIs and 17 stolen
bases last season.

Grissom, also 29, led off for
Atlanta the past two years and bad
one of his best seasons in 1996,
hitting .308 with 23 homers, 74

RBIs and 28 stolen bases.
However, his on-base percentage
was only .349 and it was believed,
be would have been better suited
at a lower spot in the batting order.

Justice, 30. separated a shoulder
on May 15 and missed the rest of
the season. However, he seemed
to have no lingering effects of the
injury when ' he returned to the-
lineup this spring.

: Embree, 27- was clearly a-
throw-in to the trade, but he does
fill a need on the Braves staff.
Atlanta had been seeking another
left-hander to go with Kevin
Rogers in the bullpen, allowing
Terrell Wade to remain the fifth
starter. Embree split time last sea-
son the Indians and Triple-A
Buffalo, going 1-1 with a 6.39
ERA in 24 games with t^e Indians.

LONDON (Reuter) - Liverpool closed to within three points of
Premier League leaders Manchester United on Monday with a contro-
versial 2-1 win at third-placed Arsenal.

The relegation battle between Middlesbrough and Nottingham Foresr
ended 1-1. _

The first half at Highbury was a high-speed affair with little time on
the ball for either side.

Liverpool’s Stan Collymore missed three decent chances while Dennis
Bergkarap blazed over for Arsenal.

But five minutes into the second half Collymore was presented with an
unmissable opportunity when David Seaman foiled to hold a shot bySfig
Inge Bjomebye. •"•••• ... - jy*

Seaman, playing his first game after nearly two months out injure^
was heavily involved in the second Liverpool goal in the 65th minute.

He was penalized for bringing down Robbie Fowler in the box -
despite the Liverpool player doing his best to convince the referee fhat
there was no contact

Seaman then saved Fowler’s poorly-struck penalty. - only for Jason
McAteer to bang in the rebound.

Ian Wright pulled one back 12 minutes from time but it was too lare
for Arsenal who stayed six points behind United from a game more.

Liverpool manager Roy Evans said he thought his side deserved to win a
“very competitive game ... it’s a tough place to come and win,” he said.

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British actors Pebelope Keith and William Gaunt,
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who are suddenly saddled with three mischievous
grandchildren who have become orphaned.

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examines Israel's Arab minority, their feelings and
their future. To them. Independence Day is a test.
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in the ensemble's chemistry, and set them loose to
try on new roles. The strength of both pictures lies
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10:15 100 Years of
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11:15 Geography
11:40 Judaism
1205 Music
12^5 Science and

■ JORDAN TV
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15d» Holy Koran
15:05 The Muppefe
15^0 Adveraueson
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1&00 French pro-
grams

17.-00 Americans

Funniest People
1735 Escape from

1720Cha9enge
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14.-00 Surprise Train
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■ CHANNEL 1

15:30 Motorrrice from
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15^5 Booty
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16:30 Byker Grove
1655 Zap to Zionism
1&59 A New Evening
17:34 ZappyCuflure
18:15 News in Engish

ARABIC
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HEBREW PRO-
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19*^0 News tosh
19^1 Jukebox
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20-^15 Conference Cat
21^0 The Cape
22S05 No Man's Land
23.-00 Next of Wri-
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■ CHANNEL 2

6:15 Today's
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&30 Johnny Quest
658 This Morning
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10^5 Dynasty (rpQ
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1230 Heath
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15d» Ndh and Mteh
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the Beautiful

20*^5 Grace Under

fire

21:00 The Fifth Estate
21:30 Chalenges
22D0 Spenser lor Hire
23*0 News r English
23dt5 Cobra
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■ RADDLE EAST TV

7:00 TV Shop

14. -30 The 700 Club

15. -00 Against the
Wind (1948) - docu-
mertoraytethritor
about British spies in
occupied France dur-
ing VNVtfll. Wife
Simone Signoret
Directed by Charles
Crichton. (96 mins.)
16:55 Famay

l4dX)Orias
14:50 Days Of Our
Lives

15^5 The Nanny
16 £ 0 Herories
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17^0 Good Evening
wife Guy Pines
1&00 Local broadcast
1830 One Ufa to LNe
19:15 The Voung and
fee Restless
2ft00 Sunset Beach
2030 Mekose Place
21:40 Savannah
2230 Lore Story wBi
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23.-00 Friends (rpt)
23d25ER(rpt)
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■ MOVE CHANNEL

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11530 Le Comiaud
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Funes (105 nans.)
13:15 New in the
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13^0 UtStiPS (1983)

17^40 Famiy Matters
18.-05 Saved by the
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1830 Larry King
19:30 World News

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Stenos (1996) Opt}
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Dolphin

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Jaws, The

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No Man's
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Love Story

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Where Are
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17:15 Discussion in
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1930 Documentary in

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20^5 Are Ybu Being

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21:15 Pavarotl! and
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■ ETV 2 (23)

15^0 AB together
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IftflOlOO Years of
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1B20P9arofFie
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2200 Rave Review
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23:35 Hard Justice
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630 Cartoons
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9^0 The Center ol

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■ CHAIMEL8

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600 Aerobics Qz

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17:30 SparTV— tor
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19^5 Bind Date
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2040 Wonderful
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22^7 NYPD Blue
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0040 Ute on a String
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1800 Dies MoiTout

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2200 Zorrtot
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■ RUUDLY CHANNEL

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2130 Santa Barbara
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2230 LA Law
23:30 Picket Fences
0030 Fantasy Island
130 Oprah Winfrey
230 Bamtiby Jones

■ CHANNEL 5

630 Bodies in Motion
1630 Bodes in
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1630 ASA Surfing
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1730 NCAA
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1830 National League
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2030 Women’s
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2215 Soccer
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1030 Eurogoab (rpQ
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1530 International

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9:30 Indian League
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1130 Indan Soccer
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13:30 International
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1430 Winter Sports
1530 Cricket Indan
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16:00 NCAA basket-
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1930 Asian Sport
1930 Spartsh League
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2D30 Gctt TNs is
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2330 Lany King Live

0030 European Nave
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130 World J
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1630 Slam Magazine
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1930Nascar
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2030 Motors
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635 Under the Sun
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1230 Rm -97 (rpt)
15:15 Panorama (rpt)
16:15 World Business
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1835 Under fee Sun

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830 Inskfel
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10:30 Work! Sports
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1430 American
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15:00 Asian News
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16:00 Asian News
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1B30 Worid Sport

1^0 Styte with Bsa
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21:45 American
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6:06 Morning Concert
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1230 Light Classical
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Chabrien Espafta;
Debussy: Clak de
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2035 Jerusalem
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2230 CNN Worid
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Rachmaninoff: Plano
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Dukas: The
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Wednesday, March 26, i ^ — ; .

Court criticizes A-G over polygraph

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By BA7SHEVA TSUB

The Hi'jh Court of Justice yesterday
criticized Attorney -General Elyakim
Rubinstein's decision not to undergo a
. olyeraph test before accepting his posi-
tion.

Responding to a petition from the
Movement for Quality Government in
Israel, the court ordered Rubinstein to
..nnounce within 10 days whether he is
. 'repared to undergo the test or to sus-
nend all such tests in the civil service.
! he court added that, if he chose the sec-
ond option, he could not continue to sit
• n the public commission which is
a mining the question of polygraph

Justice Ministry: There was no ‘private arrangement’

tests.

Rubinstein announced at the time of his
appointment that he refused to take the
test, as he opposed the idea in principle.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
then waived the test for him. However,
the polygraph test continues to be
mandatory for all civil servants who deal
with classified material.

At an earlier hearing on the issue, the
court had offered Rubinstein the same
two options. Rubinstein, however,
announced that he was awaiting the deci-
sion of the public commission headed by

retired Supreme Court justice Dov
Levine, which is debating die necessity
of the polygraph tests. Rubinstein, who
has consistently opposed the test, is a
member of the commission.

At yesterday's hearing. Justice
Eliezer Goldberg criticized
Rubinstein's reasoning, saying: “What
disturbs me is that the attorney-general
feels that the test interferes with civil
rights. If this Is so, the civil rights of all
those civil servants still being required
to undergo the test [until the findings of
the commission are made public] are

being affected-"

Rubinstein has set up a '‘private
arrangement” for himself. Justice Dalia
Doraer said, and this has created a situa-
tion of inequality. “It is an intolerable sit-
uation if the head of the legal hierarchy
sets up private arrangements for him-
self,” she said.

Later yesterday, the movement decided
to petition the court for an interim injunc-
tion against the government, the GSS, and
Rubinstein which would prevent the use
of polygraph tests in the civil service and
the GSS during the next 10 days.

Alternately, the movement requested an
injunction obliging Rubinstein to underg

* T? the attorney-general

cannot refer to the statements made oy
the High Court,” the Justice Ministry
spokesman said in response to the nnmg.
“But there is one point [to be clarified].
There is no ‘private arrangement me
examination of the matter was .earned
out by the cabinet which decided in
principle with regard to the attorney-gen-
eral that so long as nothing else has be«n
decided, every person has *e right to
express his opinion regarding the Basic
Law: Human Dignity and Freedom, and
to act accordingly."

Two no-confidence
motions defeated

By UAT COLLINS

Two motions of no-confidence
in the prime minister filed by
Mereiz and Had ash over the con-
struction in Har Homa were
defeated yesterday by votes of 51
to 42 after a raucous debate. The
two Moledet MKs abstained.

Both Mereiz leader Yossi Sarid
and Hadash MK Ahmed Sa'ad
said the policy of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu had created
die current security situation.

Health Minister Yehoshua
Matza responded for the govern-
ment. hampered by heckling at
almost every sentence. He belit-
tled the opposition's claim that
the timing for Har Homa is not
right, saying it would never be
• iahf for the Palestinians.

"The opposition should be
slightly more responsible." said
Matza. "We warned you when
you placed the Oslo Accords on
the table that you were bringing
danger to our very door." Matza
said the opposition had intended
dividing Jerusalem, “but the peo-
ple threw you out of power.” He
said Israel wants to continue the
talks with the Palestinians, but
without terror. Israel will contin-
ue to build in Jerusalem. Judea,
and Samaria “in spite of the
opposition.’* he added.

Matza accused the opposition
of undermining the government
"In Khan Yunis and Gaza today
they also heard Yossi Sarid ques-
tioning our abilities.” he said.

Sarid launched an attack, on the
prime minister based on the
Likud election campaign slogan
promising “a secure peace."

“We will not blame Netanyahu
for the terror attacks.” said Sarid,

“but we can put the responsibility
on him for the security and polit-
ical situation.”

Sarid also said that if
Netanyahu’s statements that
Yasser Arafat gave the green light
to violence are true, die premier
should not have called for him to
return from Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh. “If he encourages
terror he should stay in Sri
Lanka,” Sarid said. “Or maybe
the light was not as green as
Netanyahu described it."

He accused Netanyahu of
spreading panic and accusing
Yitzhak Rabin of being responsi-
ble for the tenor attacks which
occurred during the previous gov-
ernment. He "said the present
opposition acts responsibly, with
restraint

Sarid called for immediate
steps to rebuild the confidence
between Israel and the
Palestinians. “Without them,
things will deteriorate into war,”
he said. “Netanyahu is the last
person who is able to rehabilitate
and renew."

Sa’ad also blamed Netanyahu
for (he deterioration in the rela-
tions between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority. He
warned the Labor Party against
attempting to join a national
unity government, saying it
would destroy the - peace
process, not further it.

The prime minister, who was
not present for the debate or vote,
missed criticism closer to him,
when Likud MK Ruby Rivlin
attacked the government for con-
tinuing to call for negotiations
with the Palestinians, while at the
same time saying they are respon-
sible for the violence.

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Judges reject Channel 2’s request for tapes

Shahak slams Dotan parole

By LIAT COLLINS

Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak yesterday
told the Knesset Foreign Affairs
und Defense Committee that the
proposed release of embezzler
Rami Dotan from military prison
iv a “serious mishap.”

"The parole board’s decision is
unreasonable,” he said, but added
tliat only the High Court can over-
turn iL Dotan, a former air force
procurement officer, was convict-
ed of embezzling over $10 million
and is to be released after serving
half his 13-year sentence.

Meanwhile, MK Yona Yahav
(Labor) is demanding a parliamen-
tary inquiry into the case. He list-

ed 10 questions which, such a
panel should look into, including
why the initial investigation did
not continue after Dotan made a
plea bargain; why no further
charges were pressed against
Dotan for things discovered after
the plea bargain; why Dotan is
serving his sentence in a military
prison; whether there are secret
plea bargains involved; and
whether any air force accidents
were related tq Do tan's actions.

In another matter, Shahak told
the committee that the IDF is
checking all procedures relating to
the investigation of training acci-
dents. “A change is necessary,
because current procedure does
not answer new needs," he said.

By MINE MARCUS

A panel of three Tel Aviv
District Court judges yesterday
rejected an appeal by Channel 2's
news department to disclose
tapes and protocols held by
lawyer Dan Avi- Yitzhak from
previous court hearings in the
Bar-On Affair.

Avi- Yitzhak, originally MK
Aryeh Deri's lawyer, before
resigning in the middle of his
complicated fraud trial and the
Bar-On probe, had been sum-

AT THE KNESSET

By UAT COLLINS

The Knesset last night unani-

moned to give evidence in the
affair. At first, however, he
refused to give information to
police, because of lawyer-client
confidentiality. The confidentiali-
ty clause was lifted later by Tel
Aviv Magistrate’s Court and Avi-
Yitzhak gave evidence, but a pub-
lication ban was placed on the
court protocol.

Avi- Yitzhak, who had made no
secret of his wish to be attorney-
general, was accused by some of
leaking information to Channel 1
reporter Ayala Hasson, who broke
the so-called “Bar-On for
Hebron" more than two months
ago which led to the subsequent
investigation. Avi-Yitzhak has
continually denied the leaks.

however.

Deri objected to his lawyer’s
wish to be attorney-general, since
this would mean his leaving die
trial in the middle. Avi-Yitzhak
asked to be released from die
case, but Deri refused. Eventually
Avi-Yitzhak resigned from the
case, citing his client’s ’’alleged
involvement in the Bar-On case.

Now, say sources close to the
case, not only is Deri “extremely
angry” with his former lawyer,
but so is Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Prime
Minister’s Office Director-
General Avigdor Lieberman.

Yesterday, Channel 2 lawyers
Hanan Meltzer, Nava Eilon, and
Misgav Nakdimon asked Tel Aviv

Magistrate's Court to lift the con-
fidentiality clause regarding pre-
vious debates on evidence in Avi-
Yitzhak’s possession. Judge Dan
Arbel rejected the motion, but
allowed only parts of die protocol
to be published Channel 2 then
appealed to the district court, ask-
ing that all details be published.

Channel 2’s lawyers argued that
if there was a publication ban on
hearings, this meant that the
material discussed was important
arid should be made public. But
Judges Menahem Ban, Moshe
Telgam, and Amos Zamir reject-
ed the appeal, arguing that if all
details were published, damage
would be caused to the police
investigation in the Bar-On

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Bill to ban monuments to murderers passes first reading

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mously passed the first reading
of a bill by MK Ran Cohen
(Meretz) which would ban the
establishment of monuments to
murderers.

The' bill contains a clause under
which exisiting monuments can be
removed, including Baruch
Goldstein's memorial in Kiryat
Aiba. Cohen cited specifically
both the Goldstein monument and
reports that Palestinians want to
establish monuments for suicide
bombers.

New science minister needed

Dalia Itzik (Labor), chairwoman
of the Knesset Science and
Technology Committee, has writ-
ten to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu reminding him that the
Basic Law: The Government
requires a minister who resigns to
be replaced within three months
and noting that time is running out
to replace Ze’ev Begin, who
resigned over the Hebron agree-
ment

The appointment needs to be

made by Aprill7.

Water quality comes to fore
Some 55 percent of Israelis do
not drink tap water and 48% are
not happy with the quality of
drinking water. These figures were
quoted yesterday by Dafria Har-
Even, of the Histadrut’s Consumer
Protection Council, at a meeting
of the Knesset Science and
Technology Committee.

The committee, chaired by Dalia
Itzik (Labor), discussed the bene-
fits of research on preserving the
quality of Lake KinnereL Experts
warned that the issue is dealt with
by too many different bodies and
is underfunded. More warnings
were heard about the development
of poisonous algae which have
spread rapidly over the past three
years.

Costa Rican VIP visits
Deputy President of Costa
Rica Rodrigo Oreamuno Blanco
visited the Knesset yesterday as
the guest of Speaker Dan

Tichon. He was met with a full
honor guard. He sat in on part of
the Knesset plenum discussions
which opened with' a tribute to
the Tbl Aviv bombing victims.
Blanco also met with Foreign

Minister David Levy. . fg,;

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